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

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
James Allen

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

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

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow

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

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens