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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Sir Walter Scott
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
Isadora Duncan
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas Moore
Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
Sir Thomas More
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. Henry Iv
William Shakespeare
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
Suzanne Lafollette
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
John Stuart Mill
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
Benjamin Brewster
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
David Dinkins
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
Robert D. Sprecht
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
