If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that’s what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that’s a violation...

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night–because morals are...

We have taken active steps in imposing the rule of law and public order and ban armed demonstrations,

In times of war, the law falls silent.Silent enim leges inter arma

The people’s good is the highest law.

¡Creedlo, ciudadanos, aquel a quien la espada material de las leyes no detiene tampoco se detendrá por el temor moral de los suplicios del infierno, de los que se burla desde su infancia!. En una...

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.But if innocence itself is...

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don’t get away with it.

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (…): the absurd pretension that human...

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

We have grave concerns that the court will not provide the fair trial guarantees required by international law, … But it’s not too late for the tribunal’s judges to fix some of these problems if...

The relevant department has acted in straight accordance with law and exercised humanitarianism,

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as...

I may wish to return to my home in England, and I stand in New York, but ever since I was born I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have...

RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.

Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave the society based on the rule of law. But so long as you live in...

I like practicing law.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on...

Auguste Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything...

The three basic material rights — continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of...

The Ten Commandments are a historically recognized system of law,

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

He graduated law school, but he didn’t pass the bar. No, he stopped in and got drunk.

It is true, law and war are much alike. War is but a more public kind of lawing; and law is but a more private kind of waring; and both of them remedies of the...

the Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service” (U.S. Supreme Court 1950). Federal...

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to...

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government… Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

George Bush, on the other hand, fought this law all along until his position became politically untenable. And now he’s doing his best to violate the spirit of campaign finance reform by staking his re-election...

The law of large numbers was already baked into most estimates out there, including mine. You have to wonder, is he signaling anything beyond that? Is the first quarter going to be softer than people...

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families...

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used...

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

It does provide for those within the Serbian regime who are interested in protecting the rule of law in their own country that Milosevic is not the person who can do that,

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to...

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time,...

That’s what everyone thinks–they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that’s not true. You know it isn’t. It’s about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will...

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

There’s no established law on this issue. It’s very likely this will be a precedent-setting case.

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

We should be in pretty good shape from a law enforcement standpoint as we move forward.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that’s...