consistent with the rule of law and with our nation’s core values and traditions.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

There will be those people who choose to ignore the law.

Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.

I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of ‘Tally’s Folly’ that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for ‘Harvey’...

We have to comply with the law.

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don’t we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it’s against the law. If we’re not going to be a...

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

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

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

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor

We wanted to institute a mandatory spay and neutering program; however, there was a law in Sacramento pushed by advocates at some time in the past that said you cannot pass breed-specific laws, … So...

Law is a bottomless pit.

No, the Boss corrected, I’m not a lawyer. I know some law. … but I’m not a lawyer. That’s why I can see what the law is like. It’s like a single-bed blanket on a...

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don’t need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.

We’re baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education — one of the few markets left where they don’t have monopoly...

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Wouldn’t it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that… we have got to force them to comply, and we are...

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the status quo; it confirms a rigid order designed to insulate the beneficiaries...

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.

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...