Famous Law Quotes
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
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.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
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.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
