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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.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Jeremy Bentham

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

Solon

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

Ayn Rand

The people's safety is the law of God.

James Otis

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

Martin Luther

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

William Shakespeare

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Albert Einstein

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle

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.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

An unjust law is no law at all.

St. Augustine of Hippo

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.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Paolo Bacigalupi

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honor de Balzac

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!

Thomas Hardy

One with the law is a majority.

Calvin Coolidge

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

Sir Philip Sidney

The law often allows what honor forbids.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

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