3,047 Quotes About Law

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.