In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.