#law

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#beginning #fight #gun #just #laws

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#breaking #get #i #law #learned

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. ↗

— Dave Barry

#dennis #example #explained #full #laws

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. ↗

— Don Baylor

#father #father-in-law #like #our father #playing

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. ↗

— Roy Bean

#case #dismissed #explicit #fellow #fellow man

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#control #define #even #law #mass

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong. ↗

— Chris Bell

#both #bothers #effort #finding #fool

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #law #liberty #permitted #power