Law Quotes

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Brigham Young

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Hubert Humphrey

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Charles Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Charles Montesquieu

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Charles Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Charles Montesquieu

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Gerald F. Lieberman

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Henry David Thoreau

All public interest legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

Ayn Rand

A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.

John Gay

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Cassandra Clare

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Ward Becker

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Cassandra Clare

I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave

Andrew Fletcher, WorksLetters to

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin