Pastoral Resources

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

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

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.

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

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

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.