3,047 Quotes About Law

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.