Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Azarias
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot
for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and
serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by
house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the
existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
Walter Bagehot
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
Ward Becker
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't
understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht
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 must to hope
and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
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
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the
motive.
Miguel De Cervantes
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly
the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A
mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus T. Cicero
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is
to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names
very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my
own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Friedrich Engels
Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest
man.
Epitaph
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more
so.
Mahatma Gandhi
A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your
daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your
goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and
chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is fee d, Sir, he steals your
whole estate.
John Gay
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten
Commandments.
Earl Wilson
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law,
concealment of it will do.
Mark Twain
I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some
ordinance under which you can be booked.
Robert D. Sprecht
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict
with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction
with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the
individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual,
they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from
principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Charles De Montesquieu
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the
lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries,
and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs.
Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and
enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political
religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
Azarias
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot
for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and
serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by
house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the
existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
Walter Bagehot
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
Ward Becker
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't
understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht
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 must to hope
and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
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
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the
motive.
Miguel De Cervantes
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly
the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A
mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus T. Cicero
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is
to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names
very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my
own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Friedrich Engels
Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest
man.
Epitaph
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more
so.
Mahatma Gandhi
A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your
daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your
goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and
chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is fee d, Sir, he steals your
whole estate.
John Gay
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten
Commandments.
Earl Wilson
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law,
concealment of it will do.
Mark Twain
I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some
ordinance under which you can be booked.
Robert D. Sprecht
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict
with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction
with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the
individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual,
they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from
principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Charles De Montesquieu
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the
lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries,
and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs.
Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and
enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political
religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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