law Quotes

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is more than half done already.

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books,... ...

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.