Law Quote by George Sutherland

“He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.”

— Ogden Nash

“As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the…

— Herbert Spencer

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

— Seneca the Younger

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.…

— Thomas Paine

The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive…

— Adam Smith

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“You must put no man on trial before anything that is called a court… under forms of judicial proceeding, if you are not willing…

— Ann Tusa

“Supreme Court held that you can be convicted and imprisoned for committing a crime even if you had no criminal intent and absolutely no…

— James Duane

“And obstructing justice, which is another felony.”

— Joseph Finder

“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails…

— Oscar Wilde

“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.”

— Pius Langa