Law never made men a whit more just.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers