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Law Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
- The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general…
- This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
- But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise…
- I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with…
- The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
- This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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