3,047 Quotes About Law

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

Because the law will never be just. Perhaps it can come close— so close the line is hard to see. But laws are written by men, who are imperfect by nature, and justice belongs to something beyond the power of men.

The surest way to protect the Freedom of Speech is by frequently using it.

Authority is like a Uniform while power is the gun. You need power to enforce authority just like a policeman on the highway, he is authorized by the law but without gun, even children can make a mockery of him.

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.

The basic principal of this government is the will of the people.

Maybe law is closer related to art than most of us are aware of. But art and power do often stand in a strained relationship.

On the stand, I asked the witness, “What's your occupation?”“Make-up artist.”“Objection!” I replied, “Lack of foundation.

..fairy was delusion, so was the law. At any rate, it was a sort of magic, moulding reality into any shape it chose.