You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin PowellThe law is reason, free from passion.
AristotleNot only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.
George CarlinHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaUnder the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
John MuirI always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin PowellI love being in a courtroom.
Kamala HarrisI confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul SartreIt’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
Stephen CoveyI don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
Keanu ReevesTo know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl JungPossession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.
John LennonWhen the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.
Richard M. NixonI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Ruth Bader GinsburgTo live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob DylanI think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
Matthew McConaugheyWe have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
Barack ObamaMost states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. TrumanPart of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.
Barack ObamaThe 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.
H. L. MenckenIn order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
Lady GagaThe scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola TeslaI just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
Hunter S. ThompsonEverything is clearer when you’re in love.
John LennonIf you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund BurkeI simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne FrankThe absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry KissingerNothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert EinsteinWrite in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi MinhIf the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao TzuThe good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMy concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective.
Lady GagaJurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.
John KennedyIf the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert HooverAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
AristotleSuit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William ShakespeareYou don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.
Thomas SowellConfusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert EinsteinMy fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald ReaganIf you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Winston ChurchillI hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
Noam ChomskyTruth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis BaconAs every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da VinciI understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.
Kamala HarrisThere is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhat I think we need to do is pass a bill that says number one, you own your data. Number two, you can license it to Facebook but the licensing has to be knowing, it has to be willful.
John KennedyNever stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham LincolnI say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul SartreA Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon BonaparteThe great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George OrwellJust because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.
John KennedyI worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.
Michelle ObamaOK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.
Bill GatesLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Herbert Hoover