“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” – William E. Gladstone
“The law is reason, free from passion.” – Aristotle
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.” – Honore de Balzac
“Where there is no law, there is no freedom.” – John Locke
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Robert Frost
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.” – Oliver Goldsmith
“Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution.” – Rene Wormser
“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.” – Jeremy Bentham
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” – Edmund Burke
“The law is the public conscience.” – Thomas Hobbes
“Good men do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad men will find a way around the laws.” – Plato
“A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The duty of a good judge is to administer justice, but his passion should be the law.” – Francis Bacon
“A bad law is no law.” – Lysander Spooner
“The first duty of society is justice.” – Alexander Hamilton
“Law is order, and good law is good order.” – Aristotle
“People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.” – Otto von Bismarck
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have to make the law free.” – Henry David Thoreau
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“A judge is a law student who marks their own examination papers.” – H.L. Mencken
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” – Jonathan Swift
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” – Louis D. Brandeis
“The essence of law is order, and the essence of order is a proper balance of freedom and restraint.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.” – Jeremy Bentham
“The legal profession is a business with a soul.” – Anonymous
“Laws should be like clothes. They should fit the people they are meant to serve.” – Clarence Darrow
“Justice is truth in action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man—not that it excuses lawyers.” – Addison Mizner
“The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The more laws, the less justice.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A system of justice that is not rooted in law is not justice at all.” – Unknown
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.” – Louis XIV
“Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.” – William Blackstone
“He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The great aim of the law is not to punish but to guide.” – Montesquieu
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Freedom and law are not mutually exclusive but mutually interdependent.” – Earl Warren
“Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.” – Domitius Ulpian
“Lawyers have their own little ways of putting things right.” – Charles Dickens
“The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.” – Frederick Pollock
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render everyone their due.” – Justinian I