Law Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

— Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

— Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

— Abraham Lincoln

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

— Abraham Lincoln

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make…

— Abraham Lincoln

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

— Abraham Lincoln

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

— Abraham Lincoln

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

— Abraham Lincoln

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that…

— Abraham Lincoln

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;…

— Abraham Lincoln

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime…

— Abraham Lincoln

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while…

— Abraham Lincoln

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the…

— Abraham Lincoln

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before…

— Abraham Lincoln

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let…

— Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may…

— Abraham Lincoln

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

— Abraham Lincoln

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption…

— Abraham Lincoln

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

— Abraham Lincoln

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which…

— Abraham Lincoln

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can…

— Abraham Lincoln

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

— Abraham Lincoln

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the…

— Abraham Lincoln

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If…

— Abraham Lincoln