Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 831 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. ... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.~ Justice Warren E. Burger All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.~ James Burgh People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much 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 Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs Do what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel Butler “Due process,” a standard that arose in our system of law and stemmed from the desire to provide rational procedure and fair play, is equally indispensable in every other kind of social or political enterprise.~ Edmond Cahn Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.~ William J. Campbell How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.~ Albert Camus [I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.~ Candidus When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.~ Al Capone You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.~ G. R. Capp Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution -- the only necessary Law of the Constitution.~ Richard Carlile ...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction, if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace.~ William Carr Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print