Penalty/law

Famous quotes containing the words penalty and/or law:

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)