As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.