The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

It has been the law in Iowa for nearly 150 years that those who ignorantly but voluntarily pay taxes that are later determined to be illegal are not entitled to a refund.

The safety of diplomatic missions should be guaranteed in accordance with international law.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like...

This is the worst law you can even think of. It makes it criminal for El Centro to exist.

Young women are not putting themselves in danger. The people around them are doing the real damage. Who? you might wonder. The abstinence teacher who tells her students that they’ll go to jail if they...

It seems like Murphy’s Law in this place. It just feels good to get away with one, finally.

Why should Iran withdraw from its inalienable right? According to which law should we beg Europe for our rights?

Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings.

I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He’d been injured during the robbery, so they put him...

I am ready to face all the charges against me. I always submit myself to the rule of law,

We don’t have to accept bad provisions in order to make sure good provisions become law.

Those fellows, they’re always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle,...

We were hoping the attorney general would shed some light on questions we had about the law, and we could use that information to decide our appeal.

The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and...

It will make all California families safer and more secure if it becomes law.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The law does not come wrapped in a tidy, clearly labeled package. Discerning what the law is requires gathering bits and pieces from a variety of sources, sorting them according to their relative weights and...

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Corporate law is still a little bigger but not as much as years ago.

…remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could....

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I’m more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.

We will not allow it to be written in French law that workers can be laid off at a click of the fingers.

Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on...

But protest that priests are ‘no worse’ than other groups or than men in general is a dire indictment of the profession. It is surprising that this attitude is championed by the Church authorities. Although...

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

The vast majority of Texas businesses faithfully follow the law but consumers should also be aware that disasters are a prime opportunity for unscrupulous businesses to inflate prices or commit fraud,

It is important that Russia make clear to the world that it is intent on strengthening the rule of law, strengthening the role of an independent judiciary, permitting a free and independent press to flourish,

The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking...

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”Who?’ Aunt Alexandra never knew she was echoing her twelve-year-old nephew.’The...

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might –...

A great believer in precedent,’ Della Street said. ‘I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he’d faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally...

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however,...

Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn’t the young who corrupt the old, rather it’s the inverse.The aim of the old should be...

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don’t. There is no middle ground.

The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment. Their roots are entangled too tenaciously in the surrounding soil for a clean...

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.

To quote Meg, … ‘It is just too embarrassing to live in a state that can’t keep passed a simple law against discrimination.’

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable

Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.

Whether I agree or disagree with the opinion of the Supreme Court, it will be the ultimate law of the land and I will work to uphold it, … All of us hope that we’re...

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.