Memorable Famous Legal Quotes

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"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."
Mario Puzo
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle
"The law does not provide for the execution of sentences, but it does provide for their suspension."
Ivan Turgenev
"In every society, law is a reflection of the values of that society."
Ratan Tata
"The good lawyer is the safest ally, and the most dangerous adversary."
James J. Kilpatrick
"The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Justice is truth in action."
Benjamin Disraeli
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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."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"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."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark Twain
"The highest of the high is the law; the next is the expression of the law."
Lao Tzu
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson
"The law should be like death— which spares no one."
Montesquieu
"Laws are like sausages; it’s better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck
"The law is a living thing, it must be able to evolve and serve justice as society evolves."
Anne-Marie Slaughter
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
Louis D. Brandeis
"The law must not be a mere reflection of the opinions of the majority."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
Thomas Jefferson
"The highest law is that of human equity."
Thomas B. Reed
"The law is not a toothless tiger; it can and does bite."
Robert H. Jackson
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to everyone what is his due."
Justinian I
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"A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch."
Cecil
"Law cannot stand aside from the moral law."
John Marshall
"Courts are a place where the strong oppress the weak."
David Mamet
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
Samuel Butler
"The law is a living thing."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"A jury is composed of 12 men of average ignorance."
Herbert Spencer
"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Law is not about rules, it's about understanding."
Diane Wood
"You can't have a fair trial without a fair jury."
Charles V. T. Williamson
"Great principles seldom are, and never can be, infringed without bringing ruin in their train."
James Buchanan
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but that it ought to be known."
John Locke
"Law is not a science, but it has the form of a science."
Roscoe Pound
"All are equal before the law."
Marie Curie
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"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due."
Domitus Ulpian
"No one is above the law."
Alfred E. Neuman
"Every man is a lawyer of his own rights."
Martin Luther
"The law is not a set of rules but a set of principles."
Robert H. Jackson
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
H.L. Mencken
"Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up."
John A. Haskin
"If there is no justice for the people, there is no peace for the government."
Harold J. Huggins
"Law can never be settled; it is always in the making."
Robert H. Jackson
"In a democracy, the law is the tool of the ruling class."
Richard Nixon
"The law is a fearsome thing."
Victor Hugo
"If you want peace, work for justice."
Pope Paul VI
"The law should be like death, which spares no one."
Montesquieu
"A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own."
Clare Boothe Luce
"A right delayed is a right denied."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The law is a mirror of society."
Abraham Lincoln
"Good laws make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong."
William E. Gladstone
"A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The law is not a set of rules, but a way of resolving conflicts."
Richard Posner
"The first duty of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton
"A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge."
Anonymous
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to everyone his due."
Ulpian
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson
"True obedience is true freedom."
Lao Tzu
"The law is the public conscience."
Thomas Hobbes
"When the law is in the hands of the people, there is no tyranny."
James Madison
"Justice is not a private matter; it is a public virtue."
Robert McNamara
"No one is above the law, and no one is below it; nor do we seek to set a man above another man."
Theodore Roosevelt
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
Mario Puzo
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
Dante Alighieri
"One of the first duties of the civil government is to protect the rights of the individual."
John Stuart Mill
"The law is a living thing, and can be a source of living justice or living injustice."
Kenneth S. Carlston
"Justice is what love looks like in public."
Cornel West
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
Henry David Thoreau
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The law is not a set of rules, but a living, breathing thing."
J. Edgar Hoover
"The law should be like a spider's web, and if it catches a fly, it should certainly catch a lion."
Vaughn Shannon
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
Jeremy Bentham
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift
"The law is reason, free from passion."
Aristotle
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln
"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."
John Locke
"Every law is a violation of liberty."
Herbert Spencer
"The law is a mirror that shows what the society thinks is important."
Unknown
"A lawyer without books would be like a laborer without tools."
Thomas Jefferson
"Law is order, and good law is good order."
Aristotle
"A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck
"Lawyers can steal more than a hundred men armed with guns."
Mario Puzo
"The law respects the right of the individual to make decisions for themselves."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"This is what was needed: A law that could not be written and a people that could not be governed."
Robert Penn Warren
"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
Roscoe Pound
"A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."
Abraham Lincoln
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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."
Theodore Roosevelt
"In a society governed by laws, the law must always be supreme."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
Earl Warren
"Laws are like the cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift
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