Law Quotes

"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

"I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as well to avoid imputation on my motives of action, as to shut out"

"In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot"

"Necessity knows no law"

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat."

"Revolt and terror pay a price,/ Order and law have a cost."

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

"One with the law is a majority."

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it"

"Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity"

"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right."

"I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant"

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."

"Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king."

"Law never made men a whit more just."

"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author"

"Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else."