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Law Quotes


"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."


"After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system."


"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."


"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."


"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."


"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."



"Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law."
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"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law."



"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
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"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."


"Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!"


"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious."


"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
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"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."


"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."


"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."


"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."


"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."


"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."


"We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence."


"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."


"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."


"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."


"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules."


"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."


"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them."
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