Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

More law, less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law and justice are not always the same.
Gloria Steinem

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Jerry Seinfeld

Order is heaven's first law.
Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope