the law
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 more thoughts from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 other thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 wisdom & wit from Orson Pratt
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 more wisdom & wit from Orson Pratt
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 other quotes from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 quotes from Felix Frankfurter
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 more views from Robert Louis Stevenson
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 other wisdom & wit from Dorothy Day
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 views from Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 thoughts from Will Rogers
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 views from William E. Gladstone
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 thoughts from Ellen Key
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 more quotes from Henry Miller
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 other sayings from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 more views from Joseph Conrad
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 more quotes from William Dunbar
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 more wisdom & wit from Robert E. Lee
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 views from Arthur Baer
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 sayings from Charles Lamb
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
11 other quotes from James Joyce
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 sayings from Francois Rabelais
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 sayings from Sonny Bono
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 other views from Jeremy Bentham
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 quotes from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 sayings from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 more quotes from Robert Frost
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 wisdom & wit from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 quotes from George Herbert
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 other wisdom & wit from Clarence Darrow
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 other quotes from George Herbert
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 views from Bobby Darin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 more views from Honore de Balzac
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 thoughts from Joseph Addison
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 wisdom & wit from John Clayton
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 other thoughts from Frederic Bastiat