| Author |
Quotes |
| Charles John Darling | Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break. |
| Cicero | When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. |
| Clarence Darrow | I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis | The law is above the law, you know. |
| Earl Warren | It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. |
| Edmund Burke | I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. |
| Edmund Burke | A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? |
| Edna Buchanan | Our system is not one of justice, but of law. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. |
| Eric Ambler | For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. |
| Felix Frankfurter | If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. |
| Finley Peter Dunne | An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. |
| Florence Nightingale | Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table. |
| Frank Zappa | The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. |
| Friedrich von Schiller | It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. |
| George Chapman | Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. |
| George Eliot | The law's made to take care o' raskills. |
| Glaser and Way | The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. |
| Grover A Whalen | There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. |
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