I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is t...
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has...
Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
