Law never made men a whit more just. – Henry David Thoreau
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. – Charles Evans Hughes
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford
Poverty is the mother of crime. – Marcus Aurelius
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. – Bob Enyart
One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion. – Wendell Phillips
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. – Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957
Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. – Edison Haines
