Portal:Law/Quotes

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

The law...should surely be accessible at all times and to everyone.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise. To interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.

[The most important provision of the] Magna Charta, extorted from King John in 1215, as a restriction upon what was then an almost unlimited kingly power, [was that] "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or outlawed or banished or anyways destroyed, nor will the King pass upon him or commit him to prison, unless by the judgment of his peers of the law of the land.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws it has.

All law has for its object to confirm and exalt into a system the exploitation of the workers by a ruling class.