Law Quotes

"The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride; the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair." "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted" "Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer" "Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion " "Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law" "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law" "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" "Government has no other end but the preservation of property" "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom" "Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country" "I am a servant of the law Thus I must serve the law" "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "The law always limits every power it gives." "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" "It is essential to the happiness of a nation that it should have an efficient and dignified system of justice." "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced" "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society" "The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules." "The clatter of arms drowns the voice of law"