It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.
Aemilius Papinianus

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
Aristotle

Corn can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens.
African Proverb

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Author Unknown

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.
Welsh Proverb

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao & tzu

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
Judge Sturgess

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holme$

Justice is incidental to law and order.
John Edgar Hoover

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
Edgar Argo

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Erik Pepke

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.
Isaac Rosenfeld

Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.
Attribe to Bert Masterson & Earl Wilson

I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
Keith Richards

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

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
Lord Halifax

It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
Author unknown

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke

The more laws the more offenders.
Thomas Fuller

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.
Author Unknown

It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.
Mae West

Law never made men a whit more just.
Henry David Thoreau

If you don’t know there’s a trampoline in the room, you’re not going to dust the ceiling for prints.
From the television show Law & Order

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
Abel Hermant

Just because the power is out doesn’t mean we unplug the constitution.
Law and Order

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers

A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.
Lord Brougham

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Law Code, A.D. 535

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.
H.L. Mencken

There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Edmund Burke

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Max Stirner

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.
Author Unknown

Hug a police officer. It’s the law!
Author Unknown

When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation.
Vanya Cohen

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark

We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ‘em plenty of publicity.
Will Rogers

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
William Ernest Hocking

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift

One of irony’s greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself.
Anonymous

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists… I always have this thought: If we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Edie Cantor

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.
Anatole France

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Jesse Jackson

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.
H.L. Mencken

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Bob Enyart

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
S.I. Hayakawa

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips

An appeal… is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.
Edison Haines