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Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.: John Selden (1584 - 1654)
The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.: Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.: Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964)
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.: Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964)
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.: Sir John Powell
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.: William Blackstone (1723 - 1780)
Necessity has no law.: William Langland (1332 - 1400)
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

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