Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

    “You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.”
    —Belva Lockwood (1830–1917)

    “I believe it was a good job,
    Despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the
    Preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives
    To the continuation of their creed
    And their lives.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Half the testimony in the Bobbitt case sounded like Sally Jesse Raphael. Juries watch programs like this and are ready to listen.”
    —William Geimer, U.S. law educator. New York Times, p. B18 (January 28, 1994)