The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
I went to law school after college.
I had loans in law school.
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
My parents wanted me to go to law school!
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.
Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provi...
I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe it. I think the law is there to enforce fictions that would not exist otherwise. Certain laws prevent us from deviating from those fictions, an...
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often see...
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot ...
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me ...
The Law is hard, but it's the Law," Simon added in disgust. "So freaking what? If the Law is wrong, why not change it? Do you know what the world would look like if we were still following the laws made up back in the Dark Ages?" "You know who else u...
Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers.
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.
My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws.
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
I am very pro law enforcement.
