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Law is born from despair of human nature.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

José Ortega Y Gasset Nature Law Human Nature

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

~ Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley Myself School Law

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

~ Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Family School Law

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

~ J. William Fulbright

J. William Fulbright Law Behavior Stability

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

~ Kit Bond

Kit Bond Law Support Immigration

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

~ Jon Porter

Jon Porter Law American Organization

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

~ Felix Adler

Felix Adler Knowledge Law Information

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

~ Christopher Darden

Christopher Darden Justice Compassion Law

Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'

~ Jeh Johnson

Jeh Johnson War Law Conflict

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

~ Edwin Meese

Edwin Meese Law Constitution

I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.

~ Mark Fuhrman

Mark Fuhrman Great Law Influence

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

~ Adam Rickitt

Adam Rickitt Eyes Law Support

There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.

~ Jonathan Turley

Jonathan Turley Law View Principles

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

~ Robert Byrd

Robert Byrd Law Value Never

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

~ Jerry O'connell

Jerry O'connell School Law Lawyer

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

~ Norman Lamm

Norman Lamm Law Privacy Way

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

~ Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Life Law College

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

~ Bill Scott

Bill Scott Justice Job Law

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

~ Arthur Baer

Arthur Baer Justice Law Impossible

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

~ Dick Durbin

Dick Durbin Respect Law Rights

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

~ Jon Johansen

Jon Johansen Law Doing Something

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

~ Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart Law Believe Lawyer

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

~ Aly Khan

Aly Khan Great Law Liberty

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

~ Yingluck Shinawatra

Yingluck Shinawatra Law Important Fairness

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

~ Louis De Bernières

Louis De Bernières Family Relationship Law

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

~ Louis Nizer

Louis Nizer Morning Law Library

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

~ William Gaddis

William Gaddis Justice Law World

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

~ Felice Picano

Felice Picano Law American System

We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation - text, structure, history, canons of interpretation, precedent, and other well-established tools of the judicial craft - are prioritized, weighted, and applied.

~ Diane S. Sykes

Diane S. Sykes History Law Tools

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

~ Addison Mizner

Addison Mizner Man Law Ignorance

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

~ George Sutherland

George Sutherland Law Taxes Right

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

~ John Locke

John Locke Law End Where

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks Justice Law Rights

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

~ Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson Time Law You

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

~ William Hague

William Hague Law Mind People

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

~ Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells Law Giving Rights

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

~ Demosthenes

Demosthenes Law Enemy Opponent

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero Power Man Law

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

~ James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell Law Genius Which

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

~ Kurt Huber

Kurt Huber Law Improvement
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