Law Quotes

• "And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws."
  By: George Wither (Whyther or Withers), Contented Man's Morrice
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• "The glorious uncertainty of law."
  By: Thomas Wilbraham, a toast at a dinner of judges and counsel at Serjeants' Inn Hall
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• "The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it."
  By: Daniel Webster, a toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner
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• "Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
  By: George Washington
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• "In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics."
  By: Earl Warren, in the "New York Times"
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• "For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex."
  By: Gore Vidal
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• "We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them."
  By: Benjamin R. Tucker
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• "No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law."
  By: John Trumbull (1), McFingal (canto III, l. 489)
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• "The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. [Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (IV, V, 48)
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• "What the law insists upon, let it have of your own free will. [Lat., Quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (III, 4, 44)
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• "A man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot."
  By: Jeremy Taylor vol. VIII, p. 145
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• "A legal decision depends not on the teacher's age, but on the force of his argument."
  By: The Talmud
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• "Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (XV, 31)
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• "In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (III, 55)
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• "The more corrupt the state, the more laws. [Lat., Corruptissima republica, plurimae leges.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (III, 27)
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