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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. Proverbs Law 868
Lawless are they that make their wills their law. William Shakespeare Law 314
The good of the people is the greatest law. Marcus Tullius Cicero Law 219
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. Ralph Waldo Emerson Law 209
Law, without force, is impotent. Blaise Pascal Law 207
Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. Hart Pomerantz Law 161
This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes Law 149
All love is expansion all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for loves sake because it is the only law of life just as you breathe to live. Swami Vivekananda Law 143
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. The Talmud Law 142
Where the law ends tyranny begins. Henry Fielding Law 141
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. Edmund Burke Law 137
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. Tacitus Law 124
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. Thomas Jefferson Law 119
Where the law is uncertain there is no law. Proverbs Law 118
Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments. Earl Wilson Law 116
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. Alexis de Tocqueville Law 116
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens Law 112
In the criminal law ... imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration. Pius Langa Law 110
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. John Stuart Mill Law 108
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances. Azarias Law 106
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. James Clerk Maxwell Law 105
That which is not just is not law. William Lloyd Garrison Law 104
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. Edmund Burke Law 103
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. Charles Montesquieu Law 100
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. Max Stirner Law 99
Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters. Sir Thomas More Law 98
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost Law 94
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. Proverbs Law 93
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Law 93
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. Gerald F. Lieberman Law 93
The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle Law 93
Possession is nine tenths of the law. Proverbs Law 93
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon Law 92
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. Miguel de Cervantes Law 91
Petty laws breed great crimes. Ouida Law 91
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. Hunter S. Thompson Law 90
Every law is an infraction of liberty. Jeremy Bentham Law 90
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. Henry Iv William Shakespeare Law 89
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. Publilius Syrus Law 88
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. Marcus Tullius Cicero Law 87
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. Theodore Roosevelt Law 87
Without knowing it Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good. Victor Hugo Law 87
Law is a bottomless pit. John Arbuthnot Law 86
The severity of the laws prevents their execution. Charles Montesquieu Law 86
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. Henry David Thoreau Law 84
The law often permits what honor prohibits. Bernard Joseph Saurin Law 84
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau Law 84
Federal and state laws should be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. Richard M. Nixon Law 84
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli Law 83
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. H. L. Mencken Law 82

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