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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.
The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when read more
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the read more
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.