Quotes about law

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Woodrow Wilson

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Winston Churchill

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People’s lives and fortunes depend on them.

George Eliot

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.

Tom Hanks

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

George Bernard Shaw

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Samuel Smiles

Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.

Benjamin Franklin