94 result(s) for Famous Legal Quotes.
"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
"The law does not provide for the execution of sentences, but it does provide for their suspension."
"In every society, law is a reflection of the values of that society."
"The good lawyer is the safest ally, and the most dangerous adversary."
"The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life."
"Justice is truth in action."
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"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
"A jury is composed of the ordinary citizens, and it must be both a reflection of the community and a protector of its rights and liberties."
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
"The highest of the high is the law; the next is the expression of the law."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
"The law should be like death— which spares no one."
"Laws are like sausages; it’s better not to see them being made."
"The law is a living thing, it must be able to evolve and serve justice as society evolves."
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
"The law must not be a mere reflection of the opinions of the majority."
"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
"The highest law is that of human equity."
"The law is not a toothless tiger; it can and does bite."
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to everyone what is his due."
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"A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch."
"Law cannot stand aside from the moral law."
"Courts are a place where the strong oppress the weak."
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
"The law is a living thing."
"Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution."
"A jury is composed of 12 men of average ignorance."
"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
"Law is not about rules, it's about understanding."
"You can't have a fair trial without a fair jury."
"Great principles seldom are, and never can be, infringed without bringing ruin in their train."
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but that it ought to be known."
"Law is not a science, but it has the form of a science."
"All are equal before the law."
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"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due."
"No one is above the law."
"Every man is a lawyer of his own rights."
"The law is not a set of rules but a set of principles."
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
"Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up."
"If there is no justice for the people, there is no peace for the government."
"Law can never be settled; it is always in the making."
"In a democracy, the law is the tool of the ruling class."
"The law is a fearsome thing."
"If you want peace, work for justice."
"The law should be like death, which spares no one."
"A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own."
"A right delayed is a right denied."
"The law is a mirror of society."
"Good laws make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong."
"A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it."
"The law is not a set of rules, but a way of resolving conflicts."
"The first duty of society is justice."
"A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge."
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to everyone his due."
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
"True obedience is true freedom."
"The law is the public conscience."
"When the law is in the hands of the people, there is no tyranny."
"Justice is not a private matter; it is a public virtue."
"No one is above the law, and no one is below it; nor do we seek to set a man above another man."
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
"One of the first duties of the civil government is to protect the rights of the individual."
"The law is a living thing, and can be a source of living justice or living injustice."
"Justice is what love looks like in public."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"The law is not a set of rules, but a living, breathing thing."
"The law should be like a spider's web, and if it catches a fly, it should certainly catch a lion."
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"The law is reason, free from passion."
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."
"Every law is a violation of liberty."
"The law is a mirror that shows what the society thinks is important."
"A lawyer without books would be like a laborer without tools."
"Law is order, and good law is good order."
"A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever."
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
"Lawyers can steal more than a hundred men armed with guns."
"The law respects the right of the individual to make decisions for themselves."
"This is what was needed: A law that could not be written and a people that could not be governed."
"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
"A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
"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."
"In a society governed by laws, the law must always be supreme."
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
"Laws are like the cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
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