“Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.”
“Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
“It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.”
“Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.”
“Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.”
“I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.”
“The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.”
“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”
“We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.”
“Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.”
“Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.”
“The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.”
“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.”
“I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.”
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
“The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
“The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.”
“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.”
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them”
“The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.”
“I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.”
“Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.”
“I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.”
“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
“Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.”