“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Mark Twain
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
Immanuel Kant
“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
“The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him”
John Marshall
“The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
Raymond Chandler
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers”
Samuel Butler
