When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. – John Marshall
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. – Ida B. Wells
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. – Jim Sensenbrenner
Unfortunately, the diplomatic destruction Netanyahu is causing will lead Israel to lose its Jewish majority and become a binational state. This unfortunate fact is something no law can hide. – Isaac Herzog
Language is political. That’s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that’s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. – June Jordan
But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen. – Gordon Gould
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. – James F. Cooper
A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement. – John C. Calhoun
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. – Julius Streicher
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. – Judith Butler
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own. – Joe Biden
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. – Hermann von Helmholtz
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. – Joseph Barbera
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. – James Callaghan
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. – Ida B. Wells
I have no tattoos at all – it was a huge undertaking for me in the ’80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did ‘L.A. Law.’ – Jimmy Smits
In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn’t go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, ‘Law firms won’t hire you.’ – Janet Reno
We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law. – Janet Reno
When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia. – Johnny Depp
In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn’t slam him. I said, ‘Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn’t a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.’ – J. C. Watts
Englishmen learn Christ’s law best in English. Moses heard God’s law in his own tongue; so did Christ’s apostles. – John Wycliffe
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. – Ida B. Wells
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. – John Wayne
If you ain’t thinkin’ about man and God and law, then you ain’t thinkin’ about nothin’. – Joe Strummer
