Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only...

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that.” It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which...

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the...

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

We’re getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Japan will calmly proceed with its activities in line with international law.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

This sends a strong message to growers that the law will not tolerate requiring workers to work off the clock.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Once the legislation is enacted our law will be worthy of our reputation as a nation of animal lovers. This bill is aimed at those few who do not properly fulfil their responsibilities for the...

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don’t need them, and the bad people don’t obey them.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always...

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become...

The main argument we would make is that marriage law has always been left to the states.

[Nigerian officials have] a responsibility to turn him over to us. International law requires them to, … West Africa and West African leaders need to understand it’s the rule of law.

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal...

According to the presidential order (last week), and to the law passed by the parliament (last year), the order of resumption of uranium enrichment was issued.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

Whether or not the law is passed, no one should be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment while in custody of the United States government,

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such...

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

A speeding fine lets me know it’s OK to break the law, just so long as I’m willing pay money for the privilege to do so.

And what hypocrisy it is on the part of our Government to have the Bible in our courts of law for the culprit to take his oath upon and then be tried for the very...

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

He aimed at the lawyer’s heart but missed it. It was a mistrial.

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s veto put politics over people today, … The governor’s veto delays equal treatment under the law for thousands of California families.

In 20 years of law enforcement, I don’t think there has been a higher impact case that I have seen or been involved in,

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?””They do it all the time,” says Hayden. “That’s what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

What is truth? Truth is ever-changing law. We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours? (Crucify him! Crucify him!)

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

No one was above the law, and no one was below its protection.

The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion – well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as...

Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the crimes committed by their own side or recollect them in such a way...

Many oil producing countries do not operate in a manner consistent with U.S. federal law, but they are not based here.

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to...

I don’t want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn’t the same as being right.

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and...

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.