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Law Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
- Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for…
- Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong…
- There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
- It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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