Law Quotes
These are some of the best 'Law' quotations and sayings.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A fish that hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law, will hardly come out of it.
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A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get hold of. Discontented jurymen always find for the plaintiff.
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A knowledge of the laws of our country is an highly useful, and I had almost said essential part of liberal and polite education.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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A law overcharged with severity, like a blunderbuss overcharged with powder, will each of them grow rusty by disuse, and neither will be resorted to, from the shock and recoil that must inevitably follow their explosion.
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
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Alas! how many causes that can plead well for themselves in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe, and free soul of man, have no word to utter!
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As the law dissolves all contracts which are without a valuable consideration, so a valuable consideration often dissolves the law.
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As the laws are above magistrates, so are the magistrates above the people: and it may truly be said, that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law a silent magistrate.
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Be you never so high, the law is above you.
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Chancery, and certain other law courts, seem nothing; yet, in fact, they are, the worst of them, something: chimneys for the deviltry and contention of men to escape by.
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law, is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter from transgression.
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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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