Popular Quotations About Law (12 Quotes)
1. If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandels
2. If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he is obligated to do so.
- Thomas Jefferson
3. Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
- Roscoe Pound
4. The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
- Roscoe Pound
5. True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
- Jonathan Sacks
6. We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
- Hunter S. Thompson
7. Law is not law if it violets the principles of eternal justice.
- Lydia Maria Child
8. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt. laws are broken.
- Benjamin Disraeli
9. It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
- Earl Warren
10. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France
11. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
12. He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
- Proverb
