I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

A faraway-father is distant from his children; not necessarily in geography, but socially—either by choice or by force. Our country has many fathers who are figuratively-forced far and away from their families. Legal force brings...

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a...

If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace –...

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules.

What do I care about law? Ain’t I got the power?

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for...

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in...

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect … and though rich men’s crimes escape the law, protected as they are by...

We are precluded by law from discussing the substance of that exchange. RIM expects to continue communications through that channel.

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make...

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars...

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe… that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas– that the best test of truth...

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants,...

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

I think that the law enforcement people want to be really careful about opening it, one, so they don’t kill somebody, but secondly, so they’re able to retain the evidence that might be there, …...

Well, let’s see. There’s—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v....

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all...

What this latest incidence underscores is the necessity of increased support for local law enforcement to aid improving our border security. If this doesn’t open D.C.’s eyes, I don’t know what will.

What happened today showed that Ukraine is able to conduct an honest privatization according to the law.

The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The...

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the “reasonable person” standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed...

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.

A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is harder by far, but you end up learning a lot more. I was...

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don’t be the one left without a chair.

I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt so good. It was justice, girl. The fucking law never gave...

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of...

Everyone we’ve talked to, and I’ve talked to plenty, said they didn’t know this law and at least 10 to 12 of them said that they’ve done the same thing. In fact, the only two...

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great fundamental law, to which it is necessarily subject, and which has a solid...

Our case against RIM is based on similar technology law and patents as the case we have just won in federal court against Seven Networks.

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world...

The most important moments in a trial are often not seen by a jury. That is because it’s one of the judge’s main responsibilities to screen what they see and hear, lest they be prejudiced....

Our engineer is simply making sure this developer follows the letter of the law.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind.”45 What law has...

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves.

This is critical to both avoid the taint of amnesty for those who have broken the law, as well as preserve the flexibility of a guest worker program to fluctuate along with the needs of...

The difference between the modern laws and those of the past is that wisdom is no longer a respected requirement and it has become secondary in importance to bureaucratic procedure.

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to...