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.
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse,...
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
