As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
I've carried witty banners against laws that would curtail my freedoms.
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.