Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Opportunity makes a thief.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

I bear a charmed life.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Law is always better than war.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Law is mind without reason.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.