The Law Quotes
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing
...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.
A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.
This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.
Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.
The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.
Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.
It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.
They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.