the law
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 views from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 quotes from Orson Pratt
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 views from Orson Pratt
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 other wisdom & wit from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 views from Felix Frankfurter
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 thoughts from Dorothy Day
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 more wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Ellen Key
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 thoughts from Henry Miller
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 views from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 more quotes from Joseph Conrad
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 quotes from Addison Mizner
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 views from William Dunbar
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 sayings from Robert E. Lee
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 wisdom & wit from Arthur Baer
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 other quotes 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 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 views from Sonny Bono
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 sayings 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 more quotes from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 other views from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 other 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 quotes from Clarence Darrow
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 sayings 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 quotes from Bobby Darin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 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 quotes from John Clayton
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 other views from Frederic Bastiat