Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
“It was only after I had called the police on the illegal activities of corporations a few times and had seen them… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions. — Jesse Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very… — Leslie Hope Copy Share Image
Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Delays in the completion of legal process need to be made accountable as a crime itself.” — Bhuwan Ribhu Copy Share Image
I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.' — Juliet Landau Copy Share Image
“The statement 'I thought he was reaching for a gun' is a police officers license to kill.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.” — Henry V. O'Neil Copy Share Image
“It is a truism among lawyers that the practice of law would be great were it not for the clients. And” — William L. Myers Jr Copy Share Image
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
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