(511 quotes found)
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law”
Sophocles
“Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different”
Hart Pomerantz
“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”
Will Rogers
“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass”
Jane Bryant Quinn
“Laws can discover sin, but not remove it”
John Milton
“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
“Law never is, but is always about to be”
Benjamin Cardozo
“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure”
Thomas Jefferson
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice”
Edmund Burke
