Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage...
How big a war?" "A worse one than the one fifty years ago, I expect," said Cheery. "I don't recall people talking about that one," said Vimes. "Most humans didn't know about it," said Cheery. "It mostly took place underground. Undermining passages an...
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge ...
When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, wh...
