The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars...

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe… that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas– that the best test of truth...

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants,...

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

I think that the law enforcement people want to be really careful about opening it, one, so they don’t kill somebody, but secondly, so they’re able to retain the evidence that might be there, …...

Well, let’s see. There’s—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v....

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

Where I was raised a woman’s word was law. I ain’t quite outgrowed that yet.

The law is God’s first word; the gospel is God’s final word.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.

He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. “It spreads like a disease,” he said. “And it’s infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded...

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

So, once more, the question is: Does the Bible forbid homosexual behavior? Well, I’ve already said that it does. The Bible is so realistic! You might not expect it to mention a topic like homosexual...

Solomon’s Laws 1. When the law doesn’t work…work the law.

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The...

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

We are so grateful to everyone in law enforcement who worked on this.

It is the time that the state acquires its values and its proper place, being a guarantee of the law, security, property and freedom of the citizens.

[Roberts quoted approvingly from comments by] Professor Scalia … recognized that non-uniformity in the interpretation of federal law could be criticized as ‘sloppy,’ but asked: compared to what? Given the choice between non-uniformity and the...

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world...

Es un ciclo tan antiguo como el tribalismo. Todo comienza con la ignorancia. La ignorancia genera miedo. El miedo genera odio y el odio genera violencia. La violencia provoca más violencia hasta que la única...

It’s not as simple as looking at the number of students going into law school and suggesting that they’ll all need to qualify when they get out,

Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law...

Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. “Good-bye,” he said. “Georges-Jacques–study law. Law is a weapon.

from 1960-2015 Nigerians live under the rules of those who are above the law, but from 2015 we hope for a little change, and if there is no change in 2015, only God knows what...

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They’d only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law–the supreme law–was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not...

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel’s book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is...

When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it’s affecting college students in a negative, they’re being put out on the street.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like...

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock on their door, but that’s just not the case.

The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution ofperpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and theirfamilies to get the justice they deserve.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ‘The Survival of the Fittest.’ These are illustrious names, this...

It’s hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

President Obama’s reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will...

In the criminal law […] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

On this island, nobody stands above the law.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

ECIS deeply regrets that strong antitrust law enforcement appears to be the only way to stop the sustained anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft.

The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed.

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in...

…So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man’s inalienable right to life,...

When what one does, reps, or ‘spits’, repetitively, is foul or beastly – one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature’s law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game,...