Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicate for they have no souls.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The law is immoral.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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