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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. (Robespierre Maximilien)
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England. (Robespierre Maximilien)
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. (Robespierre Maximilien)
This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. (Robespierre Maximilien)
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Rulers were made to be broken. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. (Robespierre Maximilien)
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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