“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Only law firm out there’s called Smith and Wesson.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice, because so long as a case has to be scrutinised by twelve honest men, defendant and plaintiff alike have a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary sourceJustice Cause and Effect Neighbor Honesty Truth