3,047 Quotes About Law

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he said. "And it's infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded by men pretending to act for justice than when it's simply inefficient, or even when its elected administrator's are crooked.

Its use is threefold. It serves the purpose of restraining the wickedness of men and preserving order. It serves as a rule of holy living to the regenerate. It serves to show people their sins and reveal the wrath of God against them, and thus, indirectly, to lead souls to Christ, by disclosing to them their helplessness and ruin without Him

The books of laws which one notices, one buys, and one reads, but in fact, no one sees that anyone applies anywhere in the world with its real concept.

Police cannot focus on their resources where crime victims most need them without disproportionate enforcement activity in minority neighborhoods, but it is crime, not race, that determines such police deployment.

My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.

On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.

Що доброго в законах і в'язницях, якщо порушення закону не є гріхом?

Who cares whose head be blasted when we must procure so-called evidence? A thousand victims to discover one who's guilty. That's the spirit of the law.