law quotes

“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

“The more laws, the less justice. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In time of war the laws are silent. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The best interpreter of the law is custom. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. ”

“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. ”

— Franz Kafka

“Lawless are they that make their wills their law.”

— William Shakespeare

“Law is mind without reason.”

“States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. ”

— George Washington Bush

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ”

— Julius Caesar

“In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President. ”

— Hillary Clinton

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