Famous quotes containing the word law:
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I believe it was a good job,
Despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the
Preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives
To the continuation of their creed
And their lives.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)