Quotes About Law

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

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

Possession is eleven points in the law.

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot."

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

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

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

One with the law is a majority.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Necessity has no law.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by a man shall his blood be shed.