Law Quotes

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.
Henry Brougham

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

The people's safety is the law of God.
James Otis

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
John Arbuthnot

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Robert Bork

Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E Stevenson

Once victim, always victim - that's the law!

One with the law is a majority.







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