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- Nov 07, 2020
Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I've inherited and that I must honor.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must better understand the people we serve and protect - by trying to know, deep in our gut, what it feels like to be a law-abiding young black man walking on the street and encountering law enforcement. We must understand how that young man may see us.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020