The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
