Jeff Sessions Quotes

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 most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

The law of England is a law of liberty .

America is a country of laws.

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Law is largely crystallized custom.

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

Laws form the most important portion of a nation's history.

… law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.

There is nothing certain in the principles of jurisprudence.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

My loyalty is to the Constitution and the rule of law.

Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule by laws.

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

We are a country of laws.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?