Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.-Potter Stewart
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.-Otto von Bismarck
Justice delayed is justice denied.-William E. Gladstone
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.-Thomas Hobbes
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.-Honore de Balzac
Justice is the sum of all moral duty. – William Godwin
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.-Jonathan Swift
It is legal because I wish it.-Louis XIV
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.-Louis D. Brandeis
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.-Steven Wright
More law, less justice.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.-Oliver North
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.-Lenny Bruce
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.-Alan Dershowitz
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. – Julius Caesar
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.-Christopher Darden
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.-Calvin Coolidge
Common sense often makes good law.-William O. Douglas
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care.-Camille Paglia
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.-Henry David Thoreau
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.-Robert Green Ingersoll
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.-Christopher Darden
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.-Charles Lamb
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.-Norman Ralph Augustine
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it’s too bad that we don’t have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team’s lawyers.-Carol Burnett
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.-Charles Lamb
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.-Abraham Lincoln
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.-William Gaddis
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.-Voltaire
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.-Robert E. Lee
Advertising is legalized lying.-H. G. Wells
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.-Will Rogers
Fairness is what justice really is.-Potter Stewart
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.-Plato
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.-Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.-Joseph Conrad
That which is not just is not law.-William Lloyd Garrison
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.-Samuel Butler
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.-Charles W. Pickering
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.-Edmund Burke
I submit that 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 law.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.-Robert Louis Stevenson
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.-Saint Augustine
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.-Ambrose Bierce
Punishment is justice for the unjust. – Saint Augustine
The good lawyer is the great salesman.-Janet Reno
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.-Jeremy Bentham
It is right to give every man his due.-Plato
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.-Aaron Allston
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.-George Herbert
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.-Clarence Darrow
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.-Gavin Rossdale
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.-Gilbert Parker
Law is born from despair of human nature. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.-Don Henley
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.-James E. Rogers
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.-Herbert Spencer