The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute,… — William Borah Copy Share Image
By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of… — James Comey Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image