“ Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. ”
- Anacharsis- Copy
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“ Ignorance 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. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. ”
- Ward Becker- Copy
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“ Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. ”
- Henry M. Robert- Copy
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“ Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. ”
- Charles Macklin- Copy
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“ Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. ”
- Hart Pomerantz- Copy
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“ I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. ”
- James Clerk Maxwell- Copy
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“ Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth.... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth. ”
- Lord Darling- Copy
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“ When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 582
“ The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life — to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
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