Quotes about Law

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Salvation in Christ does not rest on a law that we inevitably break; it rests on a promise that God cannot break.

Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.

The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not