What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
We should be all be treated equally under the law. Why should members of Congress be in Obamacare and not the president?
My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.
What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
The law often allows what honor forbids.
I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.
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.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.
At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.
I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.
The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.
