It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. – Earl Warren
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. – Judge Sturgess
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. – Author Unknown
Justice is incidental to law and order. – John Edgar Hoover
Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. – Edgar Argo
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. – Erik Pepke
No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. – Isaac Rosenfeld
Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. – Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. – Grover Whalen
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. – Lenny Bruce
Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. – Lord Halifax
Hunger makes a thief of any man. – Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke
The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. – Author Unknown
