Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is a grave error that demonstrates a willful ignorance of human nature....

This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment....

Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you can get the law to...

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

To put out a guideline that reiterates existing law and regulations is a stunt.

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that...

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things...

My main problem with cops is that they do what they’re told. They say ‘Sorry mate, I’m just doing my job’ all the fucking time.

The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We know a few of them are violent criminals.

It’s too late for that – trying to second guess it. It’s over. I’m worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

When people’s love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is...

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly “imposes” a particular moral...

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created...

Until we put off the garment of law and tradition and put on that of relationship and grace, we’ll be living under the bondage of religion

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.

The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace?

Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these...

I could see one of two things happening. If a state law isn’t put in place, I can see our association moving in that direction [by conducting random steroid testing].

The problem: If you’ve an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn’t your oyster. It’s not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very...

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

There is very little law regarding e-mail right now. The law that exists is state-based, which means that [laws in] each state vary, and even the courts within a particular state may have different ways...

We merely ask that these suspects should receive the due process of law and be given the benefit of the doubt. Let the law decide if they are guilty or not.

I have compassion, I’ve told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public...

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

turn off’ all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.

Nobody is above the law, not even the president of the United States. This is against the law.

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but ‘L.A. Law,’ which had all these megastars in it.

And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse...

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it’s not happening. So I’m ignoring Twitter’s 140-character limit, so it’s not happ

Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

It is so ironic that the White House itself might be the first violator of this law, which, my name is attached to,

Players don’t answer their managers back in Japan. In Japan, what the manager says is the law. You don’t question it. It’s very different from here.

hallway evaluations” to other lawyers in the firm. I often heard about or participated in these hallway evaluations, and know that even one negative impression can have a devastating impact. In general, young attorneys who...

To me, the law was clear before — that what they did was contrary to what they are allowed to do. They are not supposed to take anything of value from the utilities.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform...

I am stubborn, and I believe it is not incompatible to respect the law and to be strong-handed with regard to the issue of terrorism and drug trafficking,

We have to maintain law and order, no matter what, and this is the one part of the city that is still working.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member...

No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.

Boeing licenses its commercial and military aircraft trademarks to model makers and, as required by federal law, monitors the quality of these products,