3,047 Quotes About Law

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.