“Who shall give a lover any law? Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“At the present time it is widely accepted among lawyers that law is higher than morality—law is something which is shaped and developed, whereas morality is something inchoate and amorphous. This is not the case. The opposite is true: morality is higher than law! Law is our human attempt to embody i…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“I am a law only of mine own, I am not a law for all. This - is now my way, - where is yours?”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“I’m learning that the system doesn’t match up to what we were taught. According to theory, the defendant should always have the advantage. Our clients are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof lies with the prosecutor. But that’s only in theory.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“No one can claim privilege above the law. It cannot happen in the United States.”— David Clarke, circa.com
“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”— Gerry Spence, amazon.com
“My immigration policy is actually pretty simple. We need to make changes to our laws to make it easier for those people who can contribute to this country to come here legally while making it impossible for criminal elements and other people to get here illegally.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com