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...

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to...

The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more as a harsh and drastic punishment to be reserved for callous...

Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

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.

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus’s findings on memory distortion were clearly commodifiable. In the 1970s and 1980s she provided assistance to defense attorneys...

If the U.S. administration sticks to international law and listens carefully to the world public opinion and to the opinion of its own people, it should not embark on any aggression against Iraq,

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you’re trying to do in...

The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or...

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke’s law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it’s over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses...

that we listen to the clear rule of law and not turn our back on it.

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most...

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die,...

God made me this way.” God has made it very clear that He does not want you to indulge your desires, but to honor Him by keeping your mind and body pure. Finally, seek professional...

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).In the foreword to your book you mention a book titled Satan’s Silence was...

California is noted for having some of the toughest standards, laws, protecting farm workers’ rights. But the law enforcement is very lax on it, and I think nothing is going to change until the employers...

I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe it. I think the law is there to enforce fictions that would not...

It is the job of every institution and especially of Parliament to observe the law.

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one...

… I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

When you deal in constitutional law, you’re dealing in some very esoteric, complicated subjects that require a great deal of background, … The jurisprudence is very complicated, and I will be pressing her very hard...