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A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.
It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.
There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.
[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.
Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.
If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.