However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.

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.

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.

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

The law is far, the fist is near.

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

An unjust law is no law at all.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

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

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.