Law Quotes

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.

In a democracy, we should be reluctant to take any action that amounts to an attempt to coerce the m...

Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important...

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the ...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a...

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on frie...

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental l...

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

With you it is always the law, never equity.

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to...

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completel...

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparen...

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is...

I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger...

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po...

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equali...

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion o...

Animalsfattened for your for your arena suffered lessthan you in dying-yours the lawlessnessof somet...

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of soc...

No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I ca...

(The law) is like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. ...

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. ...

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is c...

Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal l...

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance autho...

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a ...

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities....

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of t...

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the...

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was d...

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, a...

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of...

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don'...

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the w...

But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for th...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical cons...

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that ther...

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on...

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgmen...

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large thing...

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals...

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permit...

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded...

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter'...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants...

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved ...

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He wh...

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will ...

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live...

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Suprem...

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly.The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re...

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There ...