Law Quotes

Law is a pledge that the citizens of a state will do justice to one another. (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

The law is reason unaffected by desire. (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

Every law is an infraction of liberty. (Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832)

The laws place the safety of all before the safety of individuals. (Cicero, 106-43 b.c.)

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. (Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804)

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900)

The purpose of law is to prevent the strong from always having their way. (Ovid, 43 b.c.-18)

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919)

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910)

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