Law Quotes

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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large… — Henry Ward Beecher
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to… — Henry Ward Beecher
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless. — John Lyly
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same. — Benjamin Franklin
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. — Julian Assange
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C.S. Lewis
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant - they're quite clear - that we would create law based on the God… — Sarah Palin
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the… — Harry S. Truman
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action… — Albert Einstein
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and… — Thomas Jefferson

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