Quotes
Quotes about Law
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a damned word he says.
Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.
It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition Hath been most sound.
Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
The more laws, the less justice.
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. [Lat., Observantior aequi Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parere sibi.]
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois, Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi, Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]
Law is king of all.
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.
Law is a bottomless pit.
One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."
