Law Quotes

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.

The leading rule for the Lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Although bad Laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.