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Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Magna Charta--Privilege of Barons of Parliament
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not
tremble.
[It., Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Virginia (II, 1)
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Law is king of all.
Author: Henry Alford
Source: School of the Heart (lesson 6)
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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful
will easily break through them.
Author: Anacharsis
Source: to Solon when writing his laws
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Law is a bottomless pit.
Author: John Arbuthnot
Source: title of a pamphlet (about 1700)
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One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Apothegms (no. 181)
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All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays on Empire
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Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it
be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth not.
Author: Bible
Source: Daniel (ch. VI, v. 8)
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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Author: Bible
Source: Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 1-2)
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But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers.
Author: Bible
Source: I Timothy (ch. I, v. 8-9)
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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. VIII, v. 20)
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They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God
the things that are God's.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 21)
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 15)
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
Source: part of his dissent in the case "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his
having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument,
"What end or object could the party have had in the act with
which he is accused."
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where
mystery begins, justice ends?
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Vindication of Natural Society
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The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.
Author: Bishop Gilbert Burnet
Source: History of His Own Times
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Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 515)
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Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 359)
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The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Curse of Minerva (st. 15)
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Arms and laws do not flourish together.
Author: Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar)
Source: in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives", "Julius Caesar"
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No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion.
Author: Carrie Chapman Catt
Source: in a speech at Senate hearing on Woman's suffrage
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act II, sc. 1)
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Author: Oliver Wendell
Source: None
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Author: Robert Frost
Source: None
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Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Author: William H Mauldin
Source: None
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The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
Author: Glaser and Way
Source: None
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If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
Author: Mister Boffo
Source: None
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
Author: A Whitney Brown
Source: None
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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.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
Author: Porterfield
Source: None
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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Author: Putt's Law
Source: None
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The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
Author: Alex Levin
Source: None
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Author: Eric Ambler
Source: None
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Author: Frank Zappa
Source: None
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I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
Author: Arthur 'bugs' Baer
Source: None
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Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Author: Edna Buchanan
Source: None
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Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
Author: Charles John Darling
Source: None
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The law is above the law, you know.
Author: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Source: None
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Author: Alice Koller
Source: None
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Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.
Author: Suzanne La Follette
Source: None
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
Author: Ouida
Source: None
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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
Author: Hart Pomerantz
Source: None
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