Law Quotes

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

~ Ayn Rand

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

~ Robert Kennedy

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

~ Solon

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

~ Elizabeth Strout

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

~ Robert Owen

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

~ Albert Camus

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

~ Howard Mumford Jones

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

~ Kirk Cameron

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

More law, less justice.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The trouble with law is lawyers.

~ Clarence Darrow

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

~ Jeremy Bentham

Common sense often makes good law.

~ William O. Douglas

That which is not just is not law.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

~ Teju Cole

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

~ Anita Hill

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

~ Sally Yates

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

~ Gilbert Parker

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.

~ Robert Kennedy

I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.

~ Bhagat Singh

One with the law is a majority.

~ Calvin Coolidge

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

~ Charles Morgan

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

~ Amity Gaige

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

~ Joseph Wapner

There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

~ Samuel Butler

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

~ Barton Gellman

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

~ Camille Paglia

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

~ Marsha Blackburn

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

~ Cass Sunstein

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

~ Michael Bloomberg

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

~ Lysander Spooner

The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.

~ Trent Franks

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

~ Eric Holder

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

~ Marcia Clark

There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to do something about it. Secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty, and go forward with the legal immigration system that gives priority to American working families and wages.

~ Scott Walker