The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Law is always better than war.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

I love being in a courtroom.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

More law, less justice.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.