3,047 Quotes About Law

There have always been three trains moving simultaneously down the track -- negotiations for a transfer, litigation and law enforcement. We are no longer in the engineer's seat on the negotiation train. We're just passengers.

It is necessary to give freely if we are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes giving. The knowledge that substance is omnipresent and that people cannot, therefore, impoverish themselves by giving (but rather will increase their supply) will enable us to give freely and cheerfully.

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

That's one of the reasons why we're so open-door about this. We're all law abiding,