The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

The law is far, the fist is near.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.