Petty laws breed great crimes.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

An unjust law is no law at all.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

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

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