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An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.