Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.
The more the mother-in-law drinks the more friendly is her greeting.
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You never meet your mother-in-law on the day that you are welldressed.
With a mule you have a son, with a son-in-law you only have a mule.
There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.
After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ough...
It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.
A son-in-law and a pig will show you the way only once.
It was all Mrs. Bumble. She do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed...
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly d...
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
Woe to the high spirited bride whose mother-in-law is still alive.
Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Indeed, the Judges in the courts of law are more likely to be exposed to conflicts and disputes where the utility of law is at its highest realm where interpretation takes the fore wheel. It is in the courts, that failure to implement the law repercu...
If you want to hit your mother-in-law, be sure to split her head.
If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.
