Best Law And Lawyers Sayings
248 Law And Lawyers quotes by 174 unique authors
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The death penalty is reserved for people who do not
— Paul Simon
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights…
— Geoffrey Fisher
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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
— John Milton
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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
— Horace
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Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would…
— Bertrand Russell
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
— Eric Ambler
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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
— Mark Twain
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The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
— Ayn Rand
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Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
— Jane Bryant Quinn
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The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold…
— Gerry Spence
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But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events…
— David Hume
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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even…
— William Blackstone
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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
— John Turner
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There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
— Derek Bok
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No law is quite appropriate for all.
— Livy
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
— Idi Amin
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
— Larry Wall
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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
— Angelina Grimke
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of…
— Robert Bork
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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