I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
I worked my way through law school.
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.