This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn’t true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the...

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

It’s not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His...

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I’d make a difference.

The report shows that Mr. Tomlinson was willing to ride roughshod over the law to impose his political mind-set on PBS programming, … The Corporation for Public Broadcasting needs significant reform and vigorous oversight.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience...

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a...

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

Law does, “because God said so!”; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

The judge’s massive eyebrows crept up. “Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?” “Yes, Your Honor.””Well, shit,” Dobe said. “I guess you’re familiar with the law. You hit it over the head,...

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written....

I’ve never played an attorney, and I’d like to do so on a show like ‘The Practice’ or ‘Law & Order.’

The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the formulation given it by Thomas Aquinas in the late thirteenth century. All earlier...

Revenge is a kind of justice. But it is applicable only in wild and lawless places. Says Bhutta

In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both...

Roache’s statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that the actor was a victim of the “hysteria” created by revelations...

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and...

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

There are times when the law grinds kind of slowly.

Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.

I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead – a new purposefulness,...

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game,...

For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused,...

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

We just want people to respect the law, no matter their ethnicity. This isn ‘ t about race. It ‘ s about defending citizens who are here. We want the people of Illinois to be...

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their...

It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the...

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an...

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

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I’m standing there and that judge said I was found...

far more cases (of ritual abuse) end in acquittal” than in conviction.In fact, 58% of the ritual abuse cases in the Finkeihor (1988) study that went to trial resulted in convictions. In the Kelly (1992b)...

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter...

A mosaic of memories takes me back to my own childhood, and then to my children. My earliest memory of St. Augustine was a day trip from Jacksonville; a day with some neighbors who were...

I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

There’s nothing like breaking the law to hear from the Lord.

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.