Law Quotes

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.”

“When law can do no right,Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.”

“There is a law in each well-ordered nationTo curb those raging appetites that areMost disobedient and refractory.”

“I beseech you,Wrest once the law to your authority:To do a great right, do a little wrong.”

“I am a subject,And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,And therefore personally I lay my claimTo my inheritance of free descent.”

“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.”

“Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.”

“But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?”

“The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.”

“Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?”

“The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo”

“There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.”

“The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.”

“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”

“In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.”

“We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

“The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.”

“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”

“The highest virtue is always against the law.”

“Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.”

“The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.”