Legal Quotes

1. Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

^{Otto von Bismarck}

2. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

^{Potter Stewart}

3. Justice delayed is justice denied.

^{William E. Gladstone}

4. Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

^{Calvin Coolidge}

5. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

^{Abraham Lincoln}

6. Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

^{Will Rogers}

7. If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

^{Louis D. Brandeis}

8. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

^{Thomas Hobbes}

9. Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

10. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

^{Julius Caesar}

11. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

^Voltaire

12. A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

^{Herbert Spencer}

13. Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

^{Mark Twain}

14. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

^{Henry David Thoreau}

15. Punishment is justice for the unjust.

^{Saint Augustine}

16. More law, less justice.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

17. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

^{Jonathan Swift}

18. I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

^{Mary Roberts Rinehart}

19. Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

^{William Godwin}

20. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

^{Steven Wright}

21. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

^{Edmund Burke}

22. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

^{Charles Lamb}

23. Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

^Plato

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

^{Honore de Balzac}

25. It is legal because I wish it.

^{Louis XIV}

26. Advertising is legalized lying.

^{H. G. Wells}

27. Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

^{George Washington}

28. Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

^{William Gaddis}

29. Common sense often makes good law.

^{William O. Douglas}

30. The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

^{Christopher Darden}

31. In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

^{Lenny Bruce}

32. A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

^{George Herbert}

33. Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

^{Jeremy Bentham}

34. One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.

^{Anita Hill}

35. That which is not just is not law.

^{William Lloyd Garrison}

36. It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

^{Arthur Baer}

37. Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

^{Addison Mizner}

38. Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

^{Robert Louis Stevenson}

39. From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

^{John Harington}

40. If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

^{Charles Morgan}

41. Taste cannot be controlled by law.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

42. Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

^{Aaron Allston}

43. I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

^{Oliver North}

44. In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

^{Samuel Butler}

45. People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

^{Norman Ralph Augustine}

46. Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

^{Alan Dershowitz}

47. Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

^{Gilbert Parker}

48. Law is born from despair of human nature.

^{Jose Ortega y Gasset}