Law Quotes

Below are some more law quotes by famous people & its all about law. Please comments on it whether you like/agree or not with their quotes.

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
-Bentham.

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
-Aristotle.


" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"
- Plato.

“We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.”
- Mahmoud Abbas

“We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.”
- Mahmoud Abbas

“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”
- Jeremy Bentham

“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.”
- Jeremy Bentham

“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“Taste cannot be controlled by law.”
- Thomas Jefferson

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

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”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

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
- Winston Churchill

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.