13 quotes
“The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”
— Justinian I
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
— John F. Kennedy
“In civilized life law floats in a sea of ethics”
— Earl Warren
“The welfare of the people is the ultimate law”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“An unjust law is no law at all”
— Augustine of Hippo
“At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst”
— Aristotle
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.”
— Unknown
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law”
— Montesquieu
“Laws are like spiders webs which stand firm when any light yielding object falls upon them while a weightier thing breaks through and escapes”
— Solon
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
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