Peaceable v. Read and others (1801), 1 East. 573.
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
Source: New Selected Poems
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Context: I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.
Carpmael v. Powis (1845), 9 Beav. 19.
Quote
“Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!”
Speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City (10 November 1937), quoted in New York Times. (11 November 1937), p. 1, responding to the director of the Board of Education's special service bureau, upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred.
“General laws cannot give way to particular cases.”
King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 290.
“I am fused, just in case I blow out. I am glued, just in case I crack out.”
"Blow Out"
Lyrics, Pablo Honey (1993)
