Top 1200 Criminal Law Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers - we have a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could even be 3 million. We are getting them out of our country, or we're going to incarcerate. But we're getting them out of our country. They're here illegally.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

The Supreme Court should interpret the law, not make the law.

We can love all people while loving the law and expecting the law to be fulfilled, and that's a tricky balance.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.