I leave you the best law quotes 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 of 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 postponed is justice denied. –William E. Gladstone.
-Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give each man what he deserves. –Domitus Ulpian.
- The unjust law is in itself a type of violence. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyrannical. –Blaise Pascal.
-If we do not maintain justice, justice will not protect us. –Francis Bacon.
-Even when the laws have been written, they should not always remain unaltered. -Aristotle.
-We can win justice more quickly by giving justice to the other party. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-It is 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 should not obey the law so well. –Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-The law is order, and a good law is a good order. -Aristotle.
-It is correct to give each man his due. -Plato.
-The law is hard, 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 invented. They are born out of circumstances. –Azarias.
-Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is correct to do. –Potter Stewart.
-In civilized life, the law lies 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.
-With regard 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-The best way to make a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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 products of dishonest clients. Demand creates supply. –Morris Salem.
-Live your life as if each action were to 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.
-In his best moment, 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 demonstrate what the rule of law means for 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.
-With regard 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.
-Getting more taxes than absolutely necessary is legalized theft. –Calvin Coolidge.
-The 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 towards 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, not give up anything, and talk for hours. -Thomas Jefferson.
-If the government device is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice towards another, then, I say, break 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 not be 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 the one that obeys the laws not by reason, but by passion. –Charles de Montesquieu.
-Dumb and stubborn men make rich lawyers. -Proverb.
-Justice is the contract of convenience agreed to prevent men from harming or being harmed. -Epicurus.
-We enact various laws that create criminals, and very few that punish them. -Allan Tucker.
-Men frequently confuse murder and revenge with justice. They rarely have the stomach for justice. –Robert Jordan.
-In the courtrooms, the only justice there is is in the courtrooms. -Lenny Bruce.
-Every time a man defends his ideals or actions to improve the lot of others or attacks injustice, he sends a small wave of hope. –Robert Kennedy.
-Justice does not consist in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding what is right and defending it, wherever it may be, against what is wrong. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-I support the truth, no matter who says it. I support justice, it doesn't matter for whom or against whom it is. –Malcolm X.
-I learned law so well that the day I graduated I sued my university, I won the case and they returned my tuition. –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 to achieve justice. - Pope Paul VI.
-Law without justice is like a wound without cure. –William Scott Downey.
-If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain about 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 turn their wills into their law. -William Shakespeare.
-When man is pure, the 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 are those who 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 a lawyer lies in the uncertainty of the law. –Jeremy Bentham.
-People are more afraid 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 dominion over the 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.
-The written laws are like cobwebs, it is true, they will catch the weak and the poor, but they will be smashed to pieces by the rich and powerful. –Anarcarsis.
-Laws conceived under common consent should 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 not have 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 so 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. –Ambrosio Macrobio.
-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.
-The obedience of the law is required, not requested as a favor. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-Bad laws are the worst type of tyranny. –Edmund Burke.
-The law must always be obeyed, not only when they hold you in your special place. -Vladimir Putin.
-Although it is true that the law cannot make someone love me, it can stop them from lynching me, and I think that is quite 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. –DH Lawrence.