Law Quotes
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The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. (Quote by - Bishop Gilbert Burnet)
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Petty laws breed great crimes. (Quote by - Ouida)
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art. (Quote by - Legal Maxim)
One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through." (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Law is a bottomless pit. (Quote by - John Arbuthnot)
Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. (Quote by - Suzanne La Follette)
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. (Quote by - George Chapman)
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Quote by - Bible)
America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. (Quote by - Anon.)
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. (Quote by - Grover A. Whalen)
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
The law is above the law, you know. (Quote by - Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man. (Quote by - John Selden)
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. (Quote by - Roscoe Pound)
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. (Quote by - Bible)
Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (Quote by - Ronals Reagan)
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused." (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The United States was founded by the violent overthrow of a violently founded throne. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.". (Quote by - Isabella Beeton)
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten to one that side is cast. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell)
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. (Quote by - Putt's Law)
The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects. (Quote by - Anon.)
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. (Quote by - Hart Pomerantz)
Our system is not one of justice, but of law. (Quote by - Edna Buchanan)
Law is king of all. (Quote by - Henry Alford)
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little. (Quote by - Porterfield)
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break. (Quote by - Charles John Darling)
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. (Quote by - Bible)
The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table. (Quote by - Florence Nightingale)
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. (Quote by - Alex Levin)
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries. (Quote by - Susan C. Ross)
Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society. (Quote by - Senator Paul Simon)
How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! (Quote by - Anatole France)
Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. (Quote by - Eric Ambler)
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. (Quote by - Anacharsis)
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. (Quote by - Otto Von Bismarck)
The law of heaven and earth is life for life. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. (Quote by - Glaser and Way)
Where law ends, tyranny begins. (Quote by - William Pitt)
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. (Quote by - Carry Nation)
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. (Quote by - Anatole France)
I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much. (Quote by - Anon.)
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. (Quote by - Mister Boffo)
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. (Quote by - A Whitney Brown)
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The law itself follows gold. (Quote by - Propertius)
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. (Quote by - William H Mauldin)
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Quote by - Cicero)
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers. (Quote by - Bible)
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. (Quote by - Mary Stewart)
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.(Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth. (Quote by - Alice Koller)
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schiller)
The law's made to take care o' raskills. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. (Quote by - Learned Hand)
Arms and laws do not flourish together. (Quote by - Caius Julius Caesar)
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. (Quote by - Robert Bolt)
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. (Quote by - Bible)
