“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“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 (verified)“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)