- Nature
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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.
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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you've set a new standard, and it's lower.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020