In the 1990s, while the Maastricht debate was raging, I was a minister in the Major government. Every single piece of legislation… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in… — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
“There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law — Solon Copy Share Image
Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Our entire lives we witness individuals, the ones who break some of the most culturally sensitive moral codes, ruined permanently by the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
