Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick read more

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.

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

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

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the read more

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg read more

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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

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

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

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