Law Limitations Quotes

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better... Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

Law is not self-executing. Unfortunately, at times its execution rests in the hands of those who are faithless to it. And even when its enforcement is committed to those who revere it, law merely deters some human beings from offending, and punishes other human beings for offending. This does not make men good. This task can be performed only by ethics or religion or morality.

There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

It is unfair to the public to pretend that law enforcement efforts more than a marginal solution to the problem of crime.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose ...

Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves.