To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
I don't just write letters. I write laws.
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.
What is crucial is there be laws.
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.