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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. -- Sonia Sotomayor
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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. -- Charles Evans Hughes
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. -- Bill James
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. -- Julius Caesar
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. -- Roger Mahony
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. -- James Bovard
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. -- Fred Allen
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. -- Maria Edgeworth
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. -- Samuel Alito
President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda. -- Tom Rice
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided. -- Bernhard Schlink
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. -- Will Durant
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. -- Floyd Abrams
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. -- Charles de Secondat
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. -- George Combe
In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. -- Steven Seagal
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence. -- Lysander Spooner
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. -- John Powell
Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. -- Napoleon Hill
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. -- Al Gore
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. -- Roy Bean
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist. -- Isaiah Berlin
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged. -- Thomas Hobbes
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience. -- Roger Brooke Taney
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. -- Noam Chomsky

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