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.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Law is always better than war.

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.

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.

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.

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

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.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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

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

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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

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

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.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

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.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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

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

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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

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

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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.

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.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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!

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

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.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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?

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.

More law, less justice.