Quotes

I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival"...but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship.  It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage. 
Justice Joseph Story, 1779-1849

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. 
St. Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274.

God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness. 
William Stoughton, (Sermon at Boston) 1631-1701.

Where ever Law ends, Tyranny begins. 
John Locke, 1632-1704.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason...The law, which is perfection
of reason.  Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634. 

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.  Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as favor. 
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919.

And so as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, The Taming of the Shrew.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice. 
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), 190-159 B.C.

The first law for a historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth.  The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true.  Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.

The people's good is the highest law. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche, 1844-1900.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.

No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. 
Clause 39, The Magna Carta, 1215.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. 
John Galsworthy, 1867-1933.

The people's good is the highest law. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche, 1844-1900.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.