Quotes about law

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Samuel Johnson

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief – resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It’s the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.

Esther Hicks

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Benjamin Disraeli

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Samuel Johnson

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

William Shakespeare

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Michelle Obama