(511 quotes found)
“The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“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
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Confucius
“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
Charles Lamb
“The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders”
Lao Tzu
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer.”
Will Rogers
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
