Clear Quote by Aristotle

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and…

— Aristotle

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

— Robert Collier

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at…

— Henry David Thoreau

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

— William Blackstone

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

— Sebastian Fitzek

In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.

— Anonymous

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

— Aristotle

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

— James Anthony Froude

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

— Edward Coke

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 any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

— Massad Ayoob