Pastoral Resources

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

The law is immoral.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.