(128 quotes found)
“The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice”
Edmund Burke
“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
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant. instead of my master.”
Brigham Young
“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.”
Earl Warren
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion”
Henry George
“It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity”
Buddha Sutta-Pitaka
“A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself”
Henry Peter Brougham
