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Law Quotes by Learned Hand
- I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,…
- Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best…
- The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
- If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the…
- The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
- Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
- Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
- Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the…
- The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts…
- There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law…
- The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and…
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
- It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies…
More Law Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson