The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Adam HarbenNecessity has no law.
- Agnes NairnThe law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
- Adrian BenzigerLaw is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
- Aggrey MucheluleLaws are like sausages. It`s better not to see them being made.
- Otto von BismarckIt is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
- Earl WarrenThe United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank ZappaA jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert FrostThe law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
- Jeff MelvoinA law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
- Aaron MartensThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole FranceIgnorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because `tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
- Adam CastleLaws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert EinsteinIn the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
- Aaron McKieFragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that`s all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
- Abdelmounaim AddasI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Adam QuintonLaws 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.
- Adina RosenbaumJustice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
- Adm C. Turner JoyLet me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
- Abraham LincolnWhen men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
- Benjamin DisraeliA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- Bill LovejoyThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one`s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- Bill Lovejoy