The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
About the only gun law we have in Vermont is during deer season. If you have a semi-automatic, you can't have more… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man… — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed. — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love. — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image