Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
The special counsel regulations were written to provide the public with confidence that justice was done.
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.
Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.
I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at the moment, companies are the ones that have this technology - will not use this technology in a way that could adversely affect the people.
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
The law is a horrible business.
Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
Where there's no law, there's no bread.
I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.
