Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience. – Roscoe Pound
Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made. – Otto von Bismarck
Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. – John Selden
The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao- tzu
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. – Jeff Melvoin
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – H. L. Mencken
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don’t know where to go to erase it. – Glaser and Way
What power has law where only money rules. – Gaius Petronius
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. – Frank Zappa
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The people’s good is the highest law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law stands mute in the midst of arms. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the state of nature…all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. – Charles de Montesquieu
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. – Chaim Weizmann
Law is order, and good law is good order. – Aristotle
Law is mind without reason. – Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. – Aristotle
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. – Aristotle
Law is order in liberty, and without order, liberty is social chaos. – Archbishop Ireland
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
Good laws have their origins in bad morals. – Ambrosius Macrobius
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. – Albert Einstein
Memorizing the law is not what law school exams are about. Do you need to know the law? Sure, backwards and forwards. But that is not enough…The question is what you do with the law you’ve studied? – Alison Monoham
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
If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already – Abraham Lincoln
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
Law school’s intent is not to teach you the law. We can look that up. Instead, law school teaches you how to teach yourself – one of the most valuable tools we will ever have.
I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world – Kenneth Chenault
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I’d make a difference . – Christopher Darden
I wasn’t meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school – Eddie Huang
The single most important thing you can do when you leave law school is to find and work with a mentor. Ideally, this will be a lawyer who teaches you the practice, both substantively and ethically, and serves as a role model. – Dennis Kennedy
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
If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers? – Calvin Trillin
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
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. – Earl Warren
The law is used to serve justice. The law can also be manipulated or abused to serve injustice. – Dr T.P.Chia
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift
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.
No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people. – Clarence Darrow
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost
There not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
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 grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. – Oliver Goldsmith
Laws are like spiderwebs.They catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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