Quotes
Quotes about Law
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
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.
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.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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.
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.".
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
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.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
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.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
