I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts,...

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long - established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House...

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Similarly, gender equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to...

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only...

It was a skill useful to lawyers, and no man in all English history was more the lawyer than Coke. He personified a profession considered both so influential and so dubious that in 1372 the House of...

reduce a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death, to one less severe: the governor recently commuted the sentences of dozens of women convicted of killing their husbands.

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

there's no better system than our own morality, not law, not science, not religion… just decency.

I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was...

Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny {royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...}; who cannot show that they have performed their civic duties; who do not starve, and yet...

But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old,...

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Without trade the world will become what it was once-a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected...

Those who do not intend to satisfy do not toke conditions in hiring.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.