- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.
- Sacrifice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.
- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand squarely with our law enforcement officers who don bullet-resistant vests as part of their standard equipment and leave their home each day not knowing if they will return.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through kindergarten through 12th grade, college, law school and four years of active duty in the U.S. Army and I never once experienced anti-Semitism - until I came to the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020