Law Quotes

“I violated the law. I'm responsible for my conduct.”

“I know the law. I'm its sole dispenser west of the Pecos.”

“The First Amendment is not a partisan issue.”

“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“When rights, whether constitutional or statutory, are extended to corporations, the purpose is to protect the rights of these people.”

“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen, whose destruction it judges necessary, or useful to the general good.”

“The intent of punishments is not to torment a sentient being, nor to undo a crime already committed.”

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”

“The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be a consequence.”

“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”

“We believe that the Second Amendment is not a barrier to sensible gun laws.”

“The problem with a trial by jury is that the jurors are not your peers. They are 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty.”

“This country is a petrified forest of legality.”

“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.”

“Judicial activism is a threat to the rule of law and the separation of powers.”

“In a country where the whole government is a despotism, there is no other law than the expressed will of the sovereign.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.”

“We have to be a nation of laws, and we have to enforce those laws.”