Chinese Proverb

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

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Chinese Proverb

Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Franklin, Benjamin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

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Gilbert, William S.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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Housman, A. E.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

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Bentham, Jeremy

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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Roosevelt, Theodore

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

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Shaw, George Bernard

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

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Bierce, Ambrose

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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Terence

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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Tupper

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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