- A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit – George Herbert
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny – Edmund Burke
- Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery – Calvin Coolidge
- Common sense often makes good law – William O. Douglas
- Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. – Potter Stewart
- If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, break the law – Henry David Thoreau
- If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it – Julius Caesar
- I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer – Oliver North
- In law, nothing is certain but the expense – Samuel Butler
- 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
- It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law – Thomas Hobbes
- Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected – Alan Dershowitz
- Justice delayed is justice denied – William E. Gladstone
- 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
- Justice is the sum of all moral duty – William Godwin
- Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law – William Gaddis
- Law is born from despair of human nature – Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through – Jonathan Swift
- Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made – Otto von Bismarck
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught – Honore de Balzac
- Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals – George Washington
- Misery is the company of lawsuits – Francois Rabelais
- More law, less justice – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose – Gilbert Parker
- Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character – Robert E. Lee
- Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet – Mark Twain
- Punishment is justice for the unjust – Saint Augustine
- That which is not just is not law – William Lloyd Garrison
- The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly – Abraham Lincoln.
- You can’t learn everything you need to know legally – John Irving
