Law Quotes · Page 55

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in…

— Felix Frankfurter

[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice.…

— Jason Chaffetz

“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know…

— David K. Shipler

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

— Anne Applebaum

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

— Laurence Tribe

[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,…

— Simon Norfolk

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law.…

— Oscar Fernandes

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

— Joe Arpaio

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

— William Shakespeare

That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems…

— Susan Sontag

“Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law and if I perish, I perish.”

— Esther 4 16

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The…

— Noam Chomsky

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each…

— John Marshall

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able…

— Richard A. Falk

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive…

— Charles Dickens

Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a…

— Denis Hayes

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth.…

— Eliot Spitzer

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be…

— Andrew Lo

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending…

— Anonymous

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

— Janet Reno

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

— Gerhard Schroder

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

— Carol Moseley Braun

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

— Harry S. Truman

I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.

— Anonymous