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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.
Thurgood Marshall
Laws graven on the heart are far better than those engraved on stone.
Plato
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Law is the ultimate backstage pass to life.
Paul Perito
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
A system of justice is the richer for diversity of background and experience.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
J.K. Rowling
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
Justice delayed is justice denied.
William E. Gladstone
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honoré de Balzac
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I don't like to see things going good or bad. I like 'em in between.
Janet Reno
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt the Elder
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Sophocles
Hard cases make bad law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Cicero
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