malum in prohibitum, meaning “wrong because prohibited.

The law is like apparel, which alters with the time

— John Dodderidge

“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

— Thomas Paine

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

— Will Rogers

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who…

— Gerry Spence

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within…

— Angela Davis

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

— Noam Chomsky

It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away with it.

— Ann Widdecombe

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

— Michel de Montaigne

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

— Bhagat Singh

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

— Janet Frame

“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.”

— Bryant McGill

The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.

— Matthew McConaughey