The law is reason, free from passion.

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

I say, break the law.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

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.