A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Ben Franklin


An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln


Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Aristotle


God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
- Ben Franklin


I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson


I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
- Joe Biden


If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.
- Marilyn Monroe


If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson


If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
- Abraham Lincoln


If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
- Julius Caesar


In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
- Mahatma Gandhi


It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson


Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle


Law is order, and good law is good order.
- Aristotle


Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein


Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
- Mark Twain


Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain


Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
- George Washington


Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Ben Franklin


Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
- Abraham Lincoln


Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
- Abraham Lincoln


Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln


Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- Mark Twain


States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
- George_W Bush


Taste cannot be controlled by law.
- Thomas Jefferson


The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
- Abraham Lincoln


The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
- George_W Bush


The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle


The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
- Ben Franklin


The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson


There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
- Abraham Lincoln


To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein