3,047 Quotes About Law

Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.