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 Great Deal of Learning (William Erle)
• A Law Onto Themselves (The Bible)
• Between Us And Tyranny (Felix Frankfurter)
• Cinderella of the Law (Z. Chafee)
• Corporations Have No Soul (Edward Coke)
• Goodness Doesn't Just Happen (Rebecca West)
• 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)
• Show Me The Man (Scottish Proverb)
• Scarecrow Of The Law (Shakespeare)
• The Humanity of Law (William Scott)
• Their Jewishness (Otto Thierack)
• The Reign Of Law (Solon)
• Very Long, Very Dull (Lemony Snickett)
• Whenever Justice Is Done (Frederick Lehmann)
• Whole and Entire Power (Thomas Cromwell)
• Words And Paper (James Harington)
• Your Law, Our Law (Keintpuash)