legal statutes Quotes

If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

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

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.