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The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Law is the ultimate backstage pass to life.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

The law is reason, free from passion.

A system of justice is the richer for diversity of background and experience.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Hard cases make bad law.

I don't like to see things going good or bad. I like 'em in between.

Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

One with the law is a majority.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The more laws, the less justice.