No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Richard Schickel

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
Ethan Allen

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
Sonia Sotomayor

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
Sonia Sotomayor

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
Sonia Sotomayor

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Sonia Sotomayor

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
Sonia Sotomayor

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler