In monarchies, each man’s desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had...

It’s like they’ve already been convicted. If they’re guilty, full extent of the law. But if they’re not, don’t ruin their lives.

It was done perfectly within the law. It was well before 90 days.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Outside my bike, never has anything important in my life been just mine.” My body stilled, so did my heart, and my eyes locked with his. He started moving again, slowly, deeply and he kept...

You cannot create a law that disrupts or interferes with an existing contractual right,

It’s not a matter of whether to ignore the law, but whether to leave.

The new kick-in law is an experiment but it is now a rule. It won’t be all hunky dory but it applies to all clubs and I’m sure each coach is going to have his...

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

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Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also...

Retaliations are hard to prove, … That’s why, I think, we don’t see this in the law offices.

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed.

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in...

…So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man’s inalienable right to life,...

When what one does, reps, or ‘spits’, repetitively, is foul or beastly – one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature’s law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game,...

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

We’ll do the investigation along with law enforcement authorities. We’ll look at interviews with witnesses, check equipment to see if there was a malfunction and then come up with a cause of the accident.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

It could have been avoided if the union had obeyed the law. The rule of law implies respect for the law.

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack...

Christians – at least Christians in a liberal democracy – have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had no basis for accepting the existence of either cause and effect...

Patients are still getting harassed by local and state law enforcement.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We are just interested in dealing with the people we’re paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking...

Jail is more commonly-suited to those less-commonly able to finance a defense (or to potentially pander the prosecution). The choices for council is either a retained lawyer or, by default, a public defender. In the...

hyperbolic” ethical vision of forgiveness’. Even if I were not sure of the words ‘vision’ or ‘ethics’ in this case, let us say that only this inflexible exigence can orient a history of laws, and...

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

Nobody should think that he is above the law. Hamas can compete through dialogue, and through political means. Everybody is requesting the PA to preserve law and order, and to build institutions; otherwise we are...

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

This court finds that Col. Milam and Lt. Col. Elmore were acting in the scope of their duties” in 1991-1992 when Capt. Mackey alleged they harassed, intimidated and assaulted her. A legislative remedy was asked...

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn’t know the law — for knowledge of self and of the world is the...

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

When you got Shutts and Bowen, you got Gray, Harris [& Robinson] law firm, you’ve got KMPG accountants; I don’t think you can go wrong when you’ve got some of the best in the business,...

Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps...

I’ve been compared to Jude Law my whole career.

There’s two sides to every coin. The prevailing wage law is there to protect the laborers. It’s there as a standard.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still...

Time is logic is time is the law which governs the universe.

We go after law enforcement where the American people say it ought to be,

The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives...

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by ‘preventing worse language.’ In the military it would be...

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country’s regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little...

Law & order embrace on hate’s border.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power...