The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

There are two Newman’s laws. The first one is “It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.” The second is “Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or...

…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.

If you have a really good ideas, one thing you dont need is a fucking gun. An iPad is a kind of a cool thing. They don’t need to threaten you with fines to get...

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

There’s probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there’s no law governing that history. It’s finders keepers.

Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody.

There is overwhelming evidence that certain mental disorders occur with much higher frequency among homosexuals.” For example, 40% of homosexual men have a history of major depression. That compares with only 3% for men in...

They are asking that our laws be totally violated to protect illegal aliens, people who break the law and come into this country.

false convictions” by defense lawyers and political activists deserve far greater scrutiny from the media and the public.journal: Cheit, Ross E. “The Legend of Robert Halsey.” Journal of child sexual abuse 9.3-4 (2002): 37-52.

I suggest the anti-monopoly law be enacted as soon as possible, to fully guarantee fair market competitions by legal means.

These people came to us without any pre-screening. We feel confident that the majority are going to be law-abiding people, but with any large group there may be a small number who have a history...

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

We don’t advocate our students to break any law in any way, shape or form, but our students are advocating a change in the law and we want to support their right to advocate for...

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

Jesus didn’t come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God...

Well, he robbed his way from Utah to OklahomaAnd the law just could not seem to track him downAnd it served his legend wellFor the folks, they’d love to tell’Bout when Billy the Kid came...

Consumers have really been left in the dark since February 8, 1996 when President Clinton signed the law.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.