The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

You 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.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

A precedent embalms a principle.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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.

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.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Law, without force, is impotent.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

Law is always better than war.

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

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Law is mind without reason.

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

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I love being in a courtroom.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

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.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of ‚em.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.