Laws Quotes

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not supported by the people.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

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

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.