Jurisprudence Quotes

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

Justice is determined by the personality of the judges.

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

I loved practising law when I practised law.

For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.

What is required in Muslim countries today is a jurisprudence of the state, which operates at the broader level of national and societal interests.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Law cannot stand apart from the social changes around it.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

I am a lawyer by profession.

Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.

The law is always in transition.

The job of a justice is justice.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

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.

When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law.

We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.

The law is hard but it is the law.