Law Quotes

Newton said that "To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction." Seems those who run and exercise make positive actions that result in only a positive reactions within yourself and of course the people who pass by you on the sidewalk.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The Law is just like a religion. It contradicts itself, it has 50 exceptions to every rule, if you know everything about it you'll be in a better place, and it is wielded by the discretion of men of the cloth to progress their own prerogatives.

The Law is just like a religion. It contradicts itself, it has 50 exceptions to every rule, if you know everything about it you'll be in a better place, and it is wielded by the discretion of men of the cloth to progress their own prerogatives.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!

The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

How say that by law we may torture and chase
A woman whose crime is the hue of her face?

Treachery was never the character of Irishmen. Courage and intrepidity were their characteristics. Every creature is taught to fight, but boldly and fairly.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think is right…Law never made man a whit more just.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Remember, all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

There is a time in law when men should speak or when they will be bound by their silence.

We will ban the sale of alcohol below cost price.

It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.