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

The more laws the more offenders.
- Thomas Fuller

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Edmund Burke

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Justice is incidental to law and order.
- John Edgar Hoover

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
- Ignazio Silone

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

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

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
- Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
- Antonin Scalia

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
- Otto Von Bismarck

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
- Antonin Scalia