| Laws are silent in the midst of arms | Cicero |
| Laws should be like cloths. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve | Clarence Darrow |
| In law nothing is certain but the expense | S. Butler |
| Where law ends, tyranny begins | William Pitt |
| A law is valuable not because it is law, but because these is no right in it | H. W. Beecher |
| Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty; they define every man’s rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men | J. G. Holland |
| The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly | Lincoln |
| Necessity knows no law | St. Augustine |
| Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through | Swift |
| When the State is corrupt, then laws are most multiplied | Tacitus |
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| Justice is truth in action | Benjamin Disraeili |
| When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken | Benjamin Disraeili |
| The greater number of laws, the greater the number of offences against them | Havelock Ellis |
| Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men knew the law, but because it is an excuse everyman will plead, and no man can tell how to refute them | John Selden |
| Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, harpy that devours everything | Arbuthnot |
| Necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable in such cases is likewise legal | Sir William Scott and Lord Stowell |
| Lawyers are like bread, (are best) when they are young and new | Thomas Fuller |
| Law must be stable and yet it cannot stand still | Rescoe Pound |
| The Laws of a state change with the changing times | Aeschylus |
| If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. | Charles Dickens |
| Law cannot persuade, where it cannot punish | Rosalind Fergusson |
| Litigation is a game in which the Court is umpire | Pollock |
| Law is an ass | Charles Dickens |
| Law and sense are not the same thing | Jawaharlal Nehru |