Quotes About Law

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.