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| It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~ Earl Warren |
| Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~ Walter Savage Landor, |
| Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~ Judge Sturgess |
| People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made. ~ Otto Bismark |
| Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. ~ Judge Learned Hand, in P. Hamburger, |
| An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain – the equality of all men. ~ Ignazio Silone |
| When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~ Norm Crosby |
| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~ Robert Frost |
| This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. ~ Author Unknown |
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| Justice is incidental to law and order. ~ John Edgar Hoover |
| Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ~ Edgar Argo |
| If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~ Lord Halifax |
| It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~ Author unknown, quoted in |
| Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~ Pearl S. Buck, quoted in |
| Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~ Edmund Burke |
| But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. ~ Frederic Bastiat, |
| The more laws the more offenders. ~ Thomas Fuller, |
| Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. ~ Author Unknown |
| It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any. ~ Mae West |
| Law never made men a whit more just. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| If you don’t know there’s a trampoline in the room, you’re not going to dust the ceiling for prints. ~ From the television show |
| Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~ Charles Evans Hughes |
The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
~ William Shakespeare, |
| In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. ~ Abel Hermant, |
| When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation. ~ Vanya Cohen |
| I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~ Tom Clark |
| We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ‘em plenty of publicity. ~ Will Rogers |
| Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ~ William Ernest Hocking |