Quotes about Law

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

A system of government by the rule of law means that decisions should be made by applying known principles or laws, without the intervention of discretion in their application

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

The law is reason, free from passion

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution, nor by the courts, nor by the officers of the law, but by the men and women who constitute our society—who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

Law and freedom without violence are incompatible. Violence and law without freedom are also incompatible

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time