3,047 Quotes About Law

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.