Law Quotes - page 3

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. View quote
Maria Mitchell
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. View quote
Edward Coke
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. View quote
James A. Garfield
The will of the people is the best law. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. View quote
Francis Bacon
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
To live outside the law, you must be honest. View quote
Bob Dylan
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. View quote
H. G. Wells
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. View quote
Malcolm X
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Two things form the bedrock of any open society-freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. View quote
Denis Diderot
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. View quote
Henry Adams
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids. (Bill Maher)
People must help one another; it is nature's law. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. View quote
Edward Young
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. View quote
Russell Baker