Court Quote by Alexander Hamilton

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and…

— Felix Frankfurter

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the…

— Hilary Mantel

Laws, especially those of a constitutional nature like the Basic Law, which have been formulated through reasonable legislative processes, should never be freely interpreted…

— Carrie Lam

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

— Joel Miller

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not…

— Thomas Jefferson

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent…

— Clifford Allbutt

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

— Wilhelm Reich

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

— William Shakespeare

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

— Alan Guth

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

— Charles De Montesquieu

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

— Lydia M. Child