- Respected
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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
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection.
- Bending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.
- Federalist
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
- Persuasion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
- Nov 07, 2020
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020