law quotes

“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ”

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. ”

“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

— Albert Einstein

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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty.
Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace.
Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
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“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

“The law is reason, free from passion.”

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ”

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

— Antonio Gaudi

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

— Robert Frost

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. ”

“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. ”

“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ”

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

— Honore de Balzac

“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. ”

“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Laws are silent in time of war. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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