3,047 Quotes About Law

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.