The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Rufus T. Firefly: I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school!
Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'
Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
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.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
