Javert: It's a pity the law doesn't allow me to be merciful.
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
