- Current Law
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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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.
- Couple Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A justice is not like a law professor, who might say, 'This is my theory... and this is what I'm going to be faithful to and consistent with,' and in twenty years will look back and say, 'I had a consistent theory of the First Amendment as applied to a particular area.'
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020