Quotes and Sayings about Laws
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself – that is my doctrine.
- Thomas Paine
Learn the rules before you break them.
- Steven Taylor Goldsberry
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
- John F. Kennedy
The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
~ Earl Warren
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
- Lydia Maria Child
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
- Thomas Hobbes
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The Law … is perfection of reason.
- Sir Edward Coke
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
- George Washington
One with the law is a majority.
- Calvin Coolidge
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
- Oliver Goldsmith
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it.
- Bertolt Brecht
Reason is the life of the law, any the common law is nothing else but reason.
- Sir Edward Coke
The law is the public conscience.
- Thomas Hobbes