Law

32 quotes.

• The good of the people is the greatest law.

  Cicero

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King Jr.

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

  Anatole France

• ...once can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight.

  John Perry Barlow

• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

• Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

  Agnes' Law

• Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

  Erik Pepke

• Council for the defence was prepared to prove:1 Law He shot in self defence; 2 Law The police did it and stuck the gun in his hand; and 3 Law He was 100 miles away when it happened.

  Anonymous

• English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

  Anonymous

• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  Anonymous

• I havent committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

  David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  J. Edgar Hoover

• I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.

  Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the US

• In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  Immanuel Kant

• Justice is incidental to law and order.

  J. Edgar Hoover

• Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

  Publilius Syrus

• Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

  Japanese Proverb

• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

  Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

• Technology is dominated by two types of people those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

  Putt's Law

• The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

  The Atlanta Journal

• The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

  Anatole France

• The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.

  Knight Ridder News Service dispatch

• The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

  Henry Kissinger

• There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

• There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

  Niven's Law #16

• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

  Mark Twain

• We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

  Jeff Marder

• When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

  Richard Nixon

• With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

  Anonymous

• You are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

  Anonymous

• Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

  Hugo L. Black

• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

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