Quotes about Law

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.

In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world. But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Sin is ultimately against God. It is any failure to conform to the law of God in either action or attitude

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

A sacred respect for the Constitutional Law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

The important distinction so well understood in America, between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law established by the government and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country.

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.