Law Quotes

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

To be clear no one is above the law.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.