Law quotes

“- Simon Wilder: The beauty of the Constitution is that it can always be changed. The beauty of the Constitution is that it makes no set law other than faith in the wisdom of ordinary people to govern themselves.
- Prof. Pitkannan: Faith in the wisdom of the people is exactly what makes the Constitution incomplete and crude.
- Simon Wilder:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder
Gore Vidal - Prof. Pitkannan

“- Mildred Hayes: You could pull blood from every man and boy in this town over the age of 8.
- Willoughby: There's civil rights laws prevents that, Mrs. Hayes, and what if he was just passing through town?
- Mildred Hayes: Pull blood from every man in the country.
- Willoughby: And what if he was just passing through the country?
- Mildred...” (continue)(continue reading)
Frances McDormand - Mildred
Woody Harrelson - Willoughby

“You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.”
Anne-Marie Duff - Violet Miller

“The laws of nature transcend the laws of man. And I've transcended the laws of nature.”
Corey Stoll - Darren Cross

“- Kate Sullivan: Someday, we'll smarten up, change some laws, and put you out of business.
- Lawrence Garfield: You can change all the laws you want. You can't stop the game. I'll still be here. I adapt.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Kate Sullivan
Danny DeVito - Lawrence Garfield

“If your laws don't include me, well, then they don't apply to me either.”
Mary Stuart Masterson - Anita Crown

“Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a communist if you want to be a communist, leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.”
Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton

“It is not living that is important, but living properly. Socrates chose to die an unjust death, a death he freely accepted, rather than break the laws of Athens to which he pledged his loyalty.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“It is only very very stupid people who think the law is stupid. And avoid like the plague, loud attention seeking wannabe gangsters who are in it for the glory, to be a face, to be a name. They don't mean to fuck up. They just do.”
Daniel Craig - XXXX

“If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“- Irv Manders: You men are tresspassing. Show me a warrant or get off my land.
- Agent: We don't need a warrant.
- Irv Manders: You do unless I woke up in Russia this morning!”
Art Carney - Irv Manders

“In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice.”
Thomas Jane - Frank Castle

“Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law!”
Charlton Heston - Moses

“If the law says I can't see my son, I will fight to change that law.”

Carey Mulligan - Maud Watts

“There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.”
Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur

“This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it?”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“When there's no cops around, anything's legal!”
Kristen Schaal - Mabel Pines

“Should we have let people die, all in the name of the law? Isn’t it a hero's job to save people?”
Yuki Kaji - Shoto Todoroki

“Carrie Mathison-Guy hasn't broken the speed limit once.
Danny Galvez-Does that make him more, or less suspicious?
Carrie Mathison-It makes him boring as shit.”
Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
Hrach Titizian - Danny Galvez

“A good lawyer never reveals their deep throat.”
Aja Naomi King - Michaela Pratt

“It's amazing what one act of civil disobedience can do for a person.”
Christopher Grace - Eric Forman

“Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other.”
Kurtwood Smith - Red Forman

“I am a lawyer. We do things by the book.”
Tatiana Maslany - Jennifer Walters

“In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.”
Steven Zirnkilton - Narrator