Considered Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we…

— Immortal Technique

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

— Plautus

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

— Thomas Hobbes

“The individual case does not serve only to confirm a law from which practical predictions can be made. Its ideal is rather to understand…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may…

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

— William Henry Maule

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“… simplicity is the key to almost everything. If something can be simply stated and simply understood, it will generally translate into a working…

— Courtenay Bryce