Memorable Quotes About Law And Criminals

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"The law cannot make a man moral, but it can prevent him from being immoral."
Thomas B. Macaulay
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
William Blackstone
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
Thomas Becket
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"Penal law is to be regarded as the last resort."
Cesare Beccaria
"A man is innocent until proven guilty."
Willa Cather
"Justice is what love looks like in public."
Cornel West
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
Louis D. Brandeis
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
Samuel Butler
"The law is reason free from passion."
Aristotle
"Criminals are made, not born."
Joseph Wambaugh
"No one is above the law and no one is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The good lawyer is not the one who knows the most law, but the one who knows how to ask the right questions."
Richard J. Boucher
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
Montesquieu
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerous foundation of anarchy."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The greatest danger of all is corruption of the law."
Robert H. Jackson
"The law is a living thing, it must change with the times."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A person is innocent until proven guilty."
Unknown
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"The law is a tool, not a weapon."
Harvey H. Rosen
"Criminal law is not about punishing the guilty; it is about protecting the innocent."
Peter Macaulay
"Laws are the most powerful weapons against criminals."
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"The first duty of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton
"It is not the crime that is the problem, but the culture that produces the criminal."
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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