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America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.

The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Our system is not one of justice, but of law.

Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.

The law is above the law, you know.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

The law itself follows gold.

For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

The United States was founded by the violent overthrow of a violently founded throne.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.