Quotes About Law

held. This was before the U.S. Supreme Court changed all the laws on search and seizure. Fifty-eight of the most powerful mobsters in America were seized and hauled in by the police. Another fifty or so got away running through the woods. Also in 1957 the public was getting a close look at organized crime on TV every day during the televised sessions of the McClellan Committee Hearings on Organized Crime of the United States Senate.

Go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to party, go get an MBA. The Rat

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

The law is a ass, Sir!

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

Speak well of the law. Take care of your chest and voice, my good friend, and leave the law to take care of itself. I give you that advice

Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.

Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Jarndyce mot Jarndyce maler videre. Dette fugleskremselet av en rettssak er med tiden blitt så innfløkt at det ikke er en levende sjel som vet hva den går ut på.

a law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;

hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it; but Good, never.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without.