Laws are like spiderwebs.They catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. – Clarence Darrow
There not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people. – Clarence Darrow
The law is used to serve justice. The law can also be manipulated or abused to serve injustice. – Dr T.P.Chia
The law is vulnerable to being manipulated or abused to serve injustice, and vulture lawyers simply rape the law and prostitute justice to serve the unscrupulous and guilty for profits. – Dr T.P.Chia
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. – Clarence Darrow
If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already – Abraham Lincoln
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato
Ethics are more important than laws. – Wynton Marsalis
If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers? – Calvin Trillin
There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. – Allen Tucker
Law is a bottomless pit. – John Arbuthnot
Good law schools teach you to think like lawyers. But top law schools teach young people to think; just to think. And that makes a potentially great lawyer. – Norm Sherman
We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day. – Gerry Spence
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. – Oliver Goldsmith
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. – Barack Obama
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. – Lydia Maria Child
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. – Immanuel Kant
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. – Henry Ward Beecher
Laws are a nation’s egotism. – Edward Counsel
Laws change as the seasons. – Edward Cousel
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. – Edmund Burke
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. – Roscoe Pound
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
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I’d make a difference . – Christopher Darden
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. – Seneca
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. – George Washington
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. – Mahatma Gandhi
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
Lawyers are legal thieves in law suits.
Don’t violate the law, but don’t reject an idea because it’s illegal. You might be able to get the law changed. – Robert H. Schuller
Law without justice is a wound without a cure. – William Scott Downey
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. – Earl Warren
Law is order, and good law is good order. – Aristotle
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – H. L. Mencken
The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle
In this challenging job market it is important for law students to gain marketable experience while they are in school. This will not only give them skills and experience but it will start to provide them with professional contacts and references which will be crucial for future job searches. – Nancy Caver
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. – Thomas Jefferson
Law is mind without reason. – Aristotle
Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them. – Chetan Bhagat
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth – Jean Giraudoux
The people’s good is the highest law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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