Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

Barry Gardiner
Barry Gardiner

Treaties negotiated with foreign powers create binding obligations on future generations that cannot be repealed in the way that domestic law can. As a consequence, the most rigorous process should be in place to scrutinise such treaties before they ever come to be ratified.

Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.

Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

Brett Kavanaugh
Brett Kavanaugh

If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It's been decided by the Supreme Court.

Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.

David Duchovny
David Duchovny

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.