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Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

by Suzanne La Follette Found in: Law Quotes,
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Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Law Quotes,
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Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, read more

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

by Florence Nightingale Found in: Law Quotes,
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Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of read more

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law itself follows gold.

The law itself follows gold.

by Propertius Found in: Law Quotes,
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching read more

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Found in: Law Quotes,
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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if read more

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

by Niccolo Machiavelli Found in: Law Quotes,
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Found in: Law Quotes,
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Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Law Quotes,
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