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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other. (Boleyn Anne)
The law is reason, free from passion. (Boleyn Anne)
I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. (Boleyn Anne)
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances. (Boleyn Anne)
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. (Boleyn Anne)
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete. (Boleyn Anne)
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. (Boleyn Anne)
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. (Boleyn Anne)
Every law is an infraction of liberty. (Boleyn Anne)
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Boleyn Anne)
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. (Boleyn Anne)
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. (Boleyn Anne)
A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. (Boleyn Anne)
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. (Boleyn Anne)
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. (Boleyn Anne)
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. (Boleyn Anne)
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Boleyn Anne)
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. (Boleyn Anne)
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations. (Boleyn Anne)
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. (Boleyn Anne)
In law, nothing is certain but the expense. (Boleyn Anne)
As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong. (Boleyn Anne)
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. (Boleyn Anne)
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. (Boleyn Anne)
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. (Boleyn Anne)
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