FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT THE LAW

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The law is reason, free from passion.” – Aristotle

“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.” – John Locke

“The first duty of society is justice.” – Alexander Hamilton

“Law and justice are not always the same.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Laws are silent in times of war.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The law never sleeps.” – William Blackstone

“The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.” – Henry Clay

“The good of the people is the greatest law.” – Cicero

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” – Jonathan Swift

“The law is the public conscience.” – Thomas Hobbes

“Without law, there can be no freedom.” – John Milton

“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Ignorance of the law excuses no man.” – John Selden

“The law should be equal for all.” – Aristotle QUOTES ON CALLING SOMEONE

“Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power.” – James Madison

“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” – Earl Warren

“The law is the profession closest to the heart of society.” – Nelson Mandela

“Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but man hath put asunder.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“The law is the public conscience.” – Jeremy Bentham

“Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The voice of the law is not silent; it is articulate.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Traditional marriage has been defined as a union between one man and one woman for thousands of years for a reason, and I don’t think we should change it.” – George W. Bush

“Law and justice are two things. One is meant to eliminate the other.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fidelity to the law is the essence of freedom.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.” – Mark R. Levin

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience of the law is at the same time a profanation and an insult to it.” – Mahatma Gandhi