Law Quotes - page 2

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. (Earl Warren)
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
F. Lee Bailey
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
Václav Havel
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis Brandeis
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
In times of war, the law falls silent.
Cicero
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
David Dinkins
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
Anthony Kennedy
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
Love is the law, love under will.
Aleister Crowley
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law they die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority. (Livy)
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar