Quotes about law

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Jerome

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

Margaret Thatcher

For those here illegally today, who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only. To return home and apply for reentry like everybody else, under the rules of the new legal immigration system that I have outlined above.

Donald Trump

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Abraham Lincoln

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Charles Darwin

Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men’s whims.

Voltaire

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

Mark Twain

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Barack Obama