law quotes

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

More law, less justice.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Law is mind without reason.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.