Law and Justice Quotations

The law, like any human invention, defies perfection.

Thus, learned men have, since time immemorial, debated law and justice resulting in a never-ending series of epiphanies, each inching us closer to a complete understanding of the law.

Here are the best of the best of law and justice quotations, each with context and background on the quote and the author.

• A Delusion, A Mockery And A Snare • Thomas Denman
• A Man's Home is His Castle •
• A Great Deal of Learning • William Erle
• A Law Onto Themselves • The Bible
• A New Question Springs Up. Then How Is It To Be Decided? • Jean-Etienne Portalis
• Application To Correct The Law Must be Made Elsewhere • Justice Buller
• A Series of Unfortunate Events • Lemony Snickett
• Between Us And Tyranny • Felix Frankfurter
• Cannot Break its Chains Without Committing a Crime • Catherine the Great
• Cinderella of the Law • Z. Chafee
• Corporations Have No Soul • Edward Coke
• Destroy By The Law • Justice Hobart
• Goodness Doesn't Just Happen • Rebecca West
• Handmaid of Justice • James Wilde, aka Justice Penzance
• He Is Not To Be Hanged • Edmund Plowden
• Honorable Murder • Chiksika
• Justice Is The Ligament • Daniel Webster
• Let Reverence For The Law Be Breathed • Abraham Lincoln
• No Bachelors of Law • Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
• Not One Rule by Which the Rich are Governed and Another for the Poor • Francis Buller
• Raging Drink, Inflamed • Samuel Butler
• Show Me The Man • Scottish Proverb
• Scarecrow Of The Law • Shakespeare
• Thanks To God For Law • Philipp Melanchthon
• The Humanity of Law • William Scott
• Their Jewishness • Otto Thierack
• The Reign Of Law • Solon
• Thus Shall A Great Glory Follow You • Justinian
• Very Long, Very Dull • Lemony Snickett
• Whenever Justice Is Done • Frederick Lehmann
• Whole and Entire Power • Thomas Cromwell
• Who Ran The Country Then? • Charles Reich
• Words And Paper • James Harrington
• Your Law, Our Law • Keintpuash