Law Quotes

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

~ Hart Pomerantz

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

~ Felix Frankfurter

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

~ W. S. Gilbert

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.

~ Anatole France

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

~ Louis Nizer

Well I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

~ J. P. Morgan

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

~ Roscoe Pound

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

~ Wendell Phillips

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

~ Charles Dickens

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

~ Learned Hand

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

~ Spanish Proverb

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

~ Harold S. Geneen

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

~ Neil Gorsuch

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

~ Paul Cellucci

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

~ Clarence Darrow

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

~ Mark Udall

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

~ Charles Dickens

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

~ Archibald Macleish

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

~ John Sentamu

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

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

~ Jamie Dimon

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

~ John Linder

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

~ Barack Obama

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

~ Louis D. Brandeis

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that 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

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

~ Antonin Scalia

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

~ Brian Sandoval

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

~ Anna Lindh

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.

~ John Fleming

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

~ Albert Einstein

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

~ Anna Lindh

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

~ Reuven Rivlin

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

~ Christopher Meloni

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

~ Marsha Blackburn

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

~ Henry David Thoreau

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

~ Noam Chomsky

If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.

~ Sergei Lavrov