Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by…

— Wendell Berry

Laws are to be respected.

— Fabio Lanzoni

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

— Amity Shlaes

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them…

— Edmund Spenser

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

— Michael Foot

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of…

— Fredrik Bajer

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

— Ardel Wray

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

— Kathy Acker

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

— Henry David Thoreau

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

— Lewis B. Smedes

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the…

— Robert P. George