Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

Law is not a science, but is essentially empirical.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Law is largely crystallized custom.

Bad facts make bad law.

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Common sense often makes good law.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

Law is a bottomless pit.

It is the merit of the common law that it decides the case first and determines the principles afterward.

Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a Harpy that devours everything.

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

The law has to be, in part, a teacher.

The study of law is, after all, largely the study of history.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason....

Rule of law is based on probable cause.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.