Law Quotes

"The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral."

— Victor Hugo

"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

— Louis L'Amour

"A government of laws, and not of men"

— John Adams

"I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."

— Ulysses S. Grant

"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."

— Robert Heinlein

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

— Jonathan Swift

"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."

— Hunter S. Thompson

"If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end."

— Herbert Hoover

"If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now"

— Arthur Miller

"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."

— Voltaire

"To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws."

— Ursula K. LeGuin