3,047 Quotes About Law

[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

I'm not saying we don't support a total ban. It's just not realistic at this point. We would much more prefer to pass a law that saves 5,000 lives than go for something that will never be passed.

statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba...

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.