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A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

– HENRY WARD BEECHER

The law is the public conscience.

– THOMAS HOBBES

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

– ARISTOTLE

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

– ARISTOTLE

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

Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law is nothing else but reason.

– SIR EDWARD COKE

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

– JOHN LOCKE

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.

– SYDNEY SMITH

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

– MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The Law … is perfection of reason.

– SIR EDWARD COKE

Law … is the clear, translucent stream of justice, flowing freely and smoothly between the banks of wisdom and truth, purified by mercy and equity. As found upon our statue books, this highway of justice, like some of our rivers, is interrupted in its free course, by individual dams, sand bars, snags, and flood wood; often changing the channel, and causing many a shipwreck.

– LEVI CARROLL JUDSON

However the law, to make it a mystery and a trade, may be wrapped up in terms of art, yet it is founded on reason, and obvious to common sense.

– BUCKINGHAM, attributed, Day’s Collacon

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

– HENRY WARD BEECHER

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

– CHARLES DICKENS

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

– ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Common sense often makes a good law.

– WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

– JOHN ADAMS

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

– CHARLES EVANS HUGHES

One man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric..

– JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN II

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

– 19th CENTURY PROVERB

Remember always that all of us…are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

– FRANK D. ROOSEVELT