| "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." »Edmund Burke |
| "In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." »Colin Wilson |
| "Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him." »John Selden |
| "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." »Raymond Chandler |
| "You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law." »John and Brand, Josh Falsey |
| "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence." »Marquis de Vauvenargues |
| "With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke." »Will Rogers |
| "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley |
| "Necessity has no law." »William Langland |
| "McCabe's law Nobody has to do anything." »Charles McCabe |
| "The law must be stable, but it must not stand still." »Roscoe Pound |
| "This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying." »William Kunstler |
| "law is order, and good law is good order." »Aristotle |
| "The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong." »Cicero |
| "law is mind without reason." »Aristotle |
| "To live outside the law you must be honest." »Bob Dylan |
| "The law is a horrible business." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Possession is eleven points in the law." »Colley Cibber |
| "What power has law where only money rules." »Gaius Petronius |
| "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." »James 210 Bible |
| "The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it." »Glaser and Way |
| "The people's good is the highest law." »Cicero |
| "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law." »Cicero |
| "The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law." »Alex Levin |
| "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages." »William H. Mauldin |
| "law has no skin, reason has no nostrils." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |