Law
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I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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