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
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