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It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.
The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.
It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part.
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Those who violate classification rules will be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law, something which we don't do too much anymore.
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.
The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.
I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and more when you see what's going on.
As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.
The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.
In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities.
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.
My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."