Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
