The law is like a double-edged sword.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King Jr.
The law is the true embodiment of everything that’s excellent. – William Gladstone
An unjust law is no law at all. – St. Augustine
The law cannot make man virtuous, but it can restrain the vices. – Frederick Douglass
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift
Ignorance of the law excuses no man. – John Selden
The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice. – Martin Luther King Jr.
In matters of law and equity, the substance is everything; the form is nothing. – Abraham Lincoln
Law and justice are not always the same. – John Locke
A law is valuable not because it is a law, but because there is right in it. – Henry Ward Beecher
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus
The law is reason that commands us to do what is right and prohibits what is wrong. – Cicero
Where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. – Oliver Goldsmith
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. – Jeremy Bentham
A society without laws is a society without order. – Edmund Burke
The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. – Thomas Jefferson
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of doubtful value, but introduce us to nevertheless. – Edgar Watson Howe
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. – Samuel Johnson
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. – Gerry Spence
The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle
The law is a profession that combines tradition and innovation, rigor and creativity, logic and intuition. – Anthony Kennedy
Lawyers are essential in a democracy, but the need is even greater in a dictatorship. – Mehrangiz Kar
It is better to be a mouse in a lawyer’s office than a lion in the jungle. – Turkish Proverb
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. – Mario Puzo
The law is a jealous mistress. – Charles Dickens
The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. – Thomas B. Macaulay
Without the rule of law, there can be no justice. – Ravi Zacharias
Laws control the lesser person, right conduct controls the greater one. – Mark Twain
The judge is not the lawmaker. Rather, the judge is the interpreter and enforcer of the law. – Sonia Sotomayor
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
The law is an instrument, not of any orator’s making, but of an uncorrupted people’s will. – Susan B. Anthony
The price of justice is eternal publicity. – Arnold Bennett
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. – Malcolm X
We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan
A society without laws is a society that values chaos over order. – Edward Snowden
In a society governed by laws, the law itself becomes the ruler, not the people. – Voltaire
The law is a mixture of myth and reality. – Laurence Tribe
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is found not in legislative halls or courtrooms, but in the hearts and minds of individuals. – Robert F. Kennedy
The law is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it only teaches after the fact. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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