Quotes
Quotes about Law
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.
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.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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.
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."
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?
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
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.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
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.
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.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.
