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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Sophocles What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. - Herbert Spencer To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant,--a harpy that devours everything. - Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift, Essay on the Faculties of the Mind He hurts the good who spares the bad. [Lat., Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) The more corrupt the state, the more laws. [Lat., Corruptissima republica, plurimae leges.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (III, 27) In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (III, 55) Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (XV, 31) A legal decision depends not on the teacher's age, but on the force of his argument. - The Talmud A man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot. - Jeremy Taylor vol. VIII, p. 145 What the law insists upon, let it have of your own free will. [Lat., Quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (III, 4, 44) The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. [Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (IV, V, 48) The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. - Henry David Thoreau The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. - Henry David Thoreau No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. - John Trumbull (1), McFingal (canto III, l. 489) We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. - Benjamin R. Tucker For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. - Gore Vidal In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. - Earl Warren, in the "New York Times" Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. - George Washington The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it. - Daniel Webster, a toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner The glorious uncertainty of law. - Thomas Wilbraham, a toast at a dinner of judges and counsel at Serjeants' Inn Hall And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws. - George Wither (Whyther or Withers), Contented Man's Morrice Displaying page 9 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10
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