Famous Quotes About Laws and The Law
From Historical Figures to Classic Books and Films
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
- William Pitt
"The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law."
-Winston Churchill
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Remember always that all of us...are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Our reason is our law."
-Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. IX, l. 652
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar."
- Oscar Wilde