Quotes
Quotes about Law
America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.
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.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
The law is above the law, you know.
Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
The law itself follows gold.
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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.
The law's made to take care o' raskills.
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!
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
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.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
