the law
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 sayings from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 more quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 other 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 other views from Orson Pratt
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 quotes from Orson Pratt
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 wisdom & wit from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 quotes from Felix Frankfurter
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 other views from Robert Louis Stevenson
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 more quotes 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 sayings from Will Rogers
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 more views from Samuel Butler
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 other quotes from William E. Gladstone
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 other wisdom & wit from Ellen Key
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 other sayings from Henry Miller
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 more wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 more sayings from Joseph Conrad
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 views from Addison Mizner
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 views 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 other views from Robert E. Lee
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 more wisdom & wit from Arthur Baer
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 more quotes from Charles Lamb
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 other sayings 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 views from James Joyce
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 more views from Sonny Bono
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 more thoughts 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 other sayings from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 other wisdom & wit from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 more quotes from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 other views from George Herbert
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
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 sayings from Bobby Darin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 more 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 other quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Frederic Bastiat