Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.
I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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