Famous Law Quotes
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mankind doesn't grant itself anything — that is why it has invented the law. It isn't allowed for him so it shouldn't be allowed for others.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.