Law Quotes

"Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law."

"Nobody is allowed to break the law."

"We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive."

"Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing."

"Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term."

"In times of war, the law falls silent."

Cicero

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

William Blackstone

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Anatole France

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

Honoré de Balzac

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."

John Locke

"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."

John Locke

"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."

Montesquieu

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

Tacitus

"The people should fight for their law as for their city wall."

Heraclitus

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

Learned Hand

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

Cicero

“Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.”

“The main foundations of every state are good laws and good arms. You cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.”