I leave you the best law phrases from excellent authors such as René Descartes, Charles Dickens, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Aristotle, Plato and many more.
You may also be interested in these phrases about justice.
-No law or ordinance is more powerful than understanding. -Plato.
-It is the spirit and not the form of the law that keeps justice alive. -Earl Warren.
-The law is reason, free from passion. -Aristotle.
-The justice that love gives is surrender, the justice that law gives is punishment. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-More law, less justice. -Marco Tulio Cícero.
-Useless laws weaken necessary laws. -Charles de Montesquieu.
-Justice deferred is justice denied. -William E. Gladstone.
-Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give each man what he deserves. -Domitus Ulpian.
-Unjust law is itself a type of violence. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyrannical. -Blaise Pascal.
-If we don't uphold justice, justice will not protect us. -Francis Bacon.
-Even when laws have been written, they should not always remain unchanged. -Aristotle.
-We are able to win justice more quickly by giving justice to the other party. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. -Voltaire.
-Justice cannot be only for one of the parties, it must be for both. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
-Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
-Good men must not obey the law so well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Law is order, and a good law is good order. -Aristotle.
-It is right to give each man his due. -Plato.
-The law is tough, but it is the law. -Cassandra Clare.
-Where you find that the laws are more numerous, you will also find that injustice abounds more. -Arcesilao.
-Laws are not made up. They are born out of circumstances. -Azarias.
-Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do. -Potter Stewart.
-In civilized life, the law rests on a sea of ethics. -Earl Warren.
-Punishment is justice for the unjust. -San Agustin.
-It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. -Thomas Hobbes.
-When it comes to conscience, the law of the majority does not apply. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, just as he does not dedicate himself to the truth, but to the law. -Han Fei.
-The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. -Abraham Lincoln.
-Where the law is uncertain, there is no law. -Proverb.
-Most dishonest attorneys are the product of dishonest clients. Demand creates supply. -Morris Salem.
-Live your life as if every action will become a universal law. -Immanuel Kant.
-Justice is the greatest of man's interests on earth. -Daniel Webster
-English laws punish vice. Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. -Oliver Goldsmith.
-At his best, man is the noblest of animals, but separate him from law and justice and he becomes the worst. -Aristotle.
-Love is moral even without a legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. -Ellen Key.
-Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose, they become dangerously structured prey that blocks the flow of social progress. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
-The law is the perfection of reason. -Sir Edward Coke.
-The safety of the people must be found in the highest law. -Marco Tulio Cícero.
-The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a world full of sin. -Reinhold Niebuhr.
-People don't win people's fights. Lawyers do it. -Norman Ralph Augustine.
-Freedom is the right to do what the law allows. -Charles de Montesquieu.
-The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us on a daily basis is to remember what happened when the rule of law did not exist. -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
-The law usually allows what honor prohibits. -Bernard Joseph Saurin.
-When it comes to truth and justice, there is no difference between small and big problems, since when it comes to treating people, we are all the same. -Albert Einstein.
-Extreme justice is generally injustice. -Jean Racine.
-Collecting more taxes than absolutely necessary is legalized theft. -Calvin Coolidge.
-Ignorance of the law is not a good excuse, since every man is obliged to know the laws under which he is subject. -Thomas Hobbes.
-The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. -Will Rogers.
-Law and justice are not always the same. When they are not, destroying the law is the first step toward challenging it. -Gloria Steinem.
-It is the job of lawyers to question everything, give up nothing, and talk for hours. -Thomas Jefferson.
-If the governmental device is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, it breaks the law. -Henry David Thoreau.
-The problem with the law is the lawyers. -Clarence S. Darrow.
-No man is above the law, just as no man is below it. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-There will be no justice until those who have not been affected are as outraged as those who were. -Benjamin Franklin.
-I do not do what a lawyer tells me, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me. -Edmund Burk.
-There is no nation more powerful than that which obeys the laws not by reason, but by passion. -Charles de Montesquieu.
-Stubborn, stupid men make rich lawyers. -Proverb.
-Justice is the contract of convenience agreed to prevent men from hurting or being harmed. -Epicurus.
-We enact various laws that create criminals, and very few that punish them. -Allan Tucker.
-Men often confuse murder and revenge with justice. They rarely have the stomach for justice. -Robert Jordan.
-In courtrooms, the only justice there is is in courtrooms. -Lenny Bruce.
-Every time a man stands up for his ideals or actions to improve the lot of others or attacks injustice, he sends out a small wave of hope. -Robert Kennedy.
-Justice is not about being neutral between right and wrong, but about finding what is right and defending it, wherever it may be, against wrong. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-I support the truth, no matter who says it. I support justice, it does not matter for who or against whom. -Malcolm X.
-I learned law so well that the day I graduated I sued my university, won the case, and got my tuition back. -Fred Allen.
-The law is not justice. It is an imperfect mechanism. If you know which buttons to push and you are also lucky, you may get justice. The law was designed simply with the intention of being a mechanism. -Raymond Chandler.
-The more corrupt a society is, the more numerous are its laws. -Edward Abbey.
-Fish die when they are out of the water. People die without law and order.
-The law is a bottomless hole. -John Arbuthnot.
-The law is collective consciousness. -Thomas Hobbes.
-Lawyers are the only people whose ignorance of the law is not punished. -Jeremy Bentham.
-Social justice cannot be achieved through violence. Violence kills what it is trying to create. -Pope Juan Pablo II.
-Without the law, men are beasts. -Maxwell Anderson.
-Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see how they are made. -Otto von Bismarck.
-If you want peace, work for justice. -Pope Paul VI.
-The law without justice is like a wound without a cure. -William Scott Downey.
-If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain to the lawyers in the first instance.
-The first duty of society is justice. -Alexander Hamilton.
-The good within people is the best law. -Pica.
-If we want respect for the law, we must first make the laws respectable. -Louis D. Branders.
-If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. -Charles Dickens.
-Where the law ends, tyranny begins. -Henry Fielding.
-Illegal are those who make their wills their law. -William Shakespeare.
-When man is pure, laws are useless. When men are corrupt, the laws are broken. -Benjamin Disraeli.
-Common sense usually leads to good laws. -William O. Douglas.
-Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience, but the conscience of all humanity. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
-Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. -Martin Luther King Jr.
-The law undermines the poor, and the rich rule the law. -Oliver Goldsmith.
-Justice? You will have justice in the next world. In this you will have the law. -William Gaddis.
-The power of an attorney lies in the uncertainty of the law. -Jeremy Bentham.
-People are more fearful of the laws of man than of the laws of God because their punishment seems to be closer. -William Penn.
-Our government teaches people by example. If the government exemplifies breaking the laws and generates contempt for them, it invites all men to become the law of themselves; invites anarchy. -Louis D. Brandeis.
-Freedom thrives when religion is energetic and God's rule over law is recognized. -Ronald Reagan.
-Good laws make it easy to do the right thing and difficult to do the wrong thing. -William E. Gladstone.
-There are two things that impress me the most, the cloudy sky above me, and the moral law within me..
-A jury consists of twelve people who will decide who has the best lawyer. -Robert Frost.
-Written laws are like cobwebs, they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but they will be torn to pieces by the rich and powerful. -Anarcarsis.
-Laws conceived under common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. -George Washington.
-A state is better governed with few laws, but strictly enforced. -Rene Descartes.
-In their majestic equality, the law prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges, begging in the streets, and stealing loaves of bread. -Anatole France.
-I would rather have no laws than have too many. -Michel de la Montaigne.
-Laws, like houses, support each other. -Edmund Burke.
-The law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice. -Lydia Maria Child.
-It is not as desirable to cultivate respect for the law as much as respect for what is right. -Henry David Thoreau.
-Good laws have their origins in bad morals. -Ambrosium Macrobium.
-The end does not justify the means. -Ovid.
-Many laws certainly create bad men, since bad men are the ones who create many laws. -Walter Savage Landor.
-Obedience of the law is required, not requested as a favor. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-Bad laws are the worst kind of tyranny. -Edmund Burke.
-The law must always be obeyed, not just when you are held in your special place. -Vladimir Putin.
-While it's true that the law can't make someone love me, it can stop them from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
-For the law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, you are guilty just for thinking about doing it. -Immanuel Kant.
-Ethics and equality, and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. -D. H. Lawrence.
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