Quotes About Law

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ."

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

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

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

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