Quotes About Law

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.

In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.

You cannot make men good by law.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Narcolombia, just about everything is a capital offense