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