Complicated Quote by Dahlia Lithwick

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a ‘less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble…

— Guy Lawson

“In the Obama administration, “rule of law” talking points are just rhetorical camouflage.”

— Andrew McCarthy

“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have…

— Rex Stout

We're all subject to the rule of law.

— Yoav Gallant

“What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?”

— Brandon Sanderson

For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.

— Wayne LaPierre

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case,…

— Mark Twain

“but already there were so many laws that a man was either a lawbreaker or a hypocrite.”

— Theodore Wheeler

“I like no law at all: Were there no law there'd be no law-breakers, So all men would be virtuous”

— Oscar Wilde

“When the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law,”

— Cindy Brandner

“I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.”

— Jessica McCann