If they’re interested in obeying the law, they should ask the question.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Surveys like this are also conducted by other countries. We should handle this calmly under international law.

If this demonstration proves to hold up under replication it suggests both that therapists can induce false memories and, even more directly, that older family members play a powerful role in defining reality for dependent...

Guantánamo Bay’s motto: ‘Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.’ Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated...

I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number...

My conclusions, on this point, are as follows: when the Law Commission says committal of judgment debtors is an anomaly that cannot be justified and should be abolished; when it is common cause that there...

Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law...

Kama nje ya uwezo wa kisheria ni uovu, hivyo basi, ndani ya uwezo wa kisheria ni wema. Kila mtu amepewa vipaji na Mwenyezi Mungu. Tumia vipaji vyako kutenda mema. Usitumie vipaji vyako kutenda maovu.

The lawyer’s world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

You have to respect that there is a law.

The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man — in temperament, character, and capacity — and it respects those differences. We...

Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility” (The Ten Commandments, 10).

The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle,...

It?s a redesign of a law firm and we have cut away all the extras,

I’m an ‘intelligent’ sociopath. I don’t have problems with drugs, I don’t commit crimes, I don’t take pleasure in hurting people, and I don’t typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of...

Here is the trap you are in…. And it’s not my trap—I haven’t trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know...

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

Judges… are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud,...

There’s no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can’t come back. So I have every right to come back.

As God as my witness, they said, We’re above the law. There’s nothing you can do to us. You’re just a church secretary.

If the 1997 law cannot prevent the interment of a notorious serial killer, then what good is it? … One thing is certain already — the parole loophole must be closed.

Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief effect...

We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy...

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

When I first started practicing law in the 1960s, no person had ever won a case against the City of Los Angeles for violation of their civil rights. There came a time when I felt...

I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who’s in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us....

My daughter and son-in-law sold their condo (because of a troublesome downstairs neighbor). They are in a rental waiting for the market to go down, and I think they are right in doing so.

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their...

This new registration law will establish a model for the rest of the nation to follow.

The investigation must be conducted in a transparent and professional manner and in full accordance with law,

Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is a grave error that demonstrates a willful ignorance of human nature....

This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment....

Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you can get the law to...

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

To put out a guideline that reiterates existing law and regulations is a stunt.

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that...

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things...

My main problem with cops is that they do what they’re told. They say ‘Sorry mate, I’m just doing my job’ all the fucking time.

The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We know a few of them are violent criminals.

It’s too late for that – trying to second guess it. It’s over. I’m worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

When people’s love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is...