Famous quotes containing the word law:
“Mr. Brownlow: The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.
Bumble: If thats what the law supposes, sir, then the laws an ass. And if thats the eye of the law, sir, then the laws a bachelor.”
—Vernon Harris (c. 1910)
“Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.”
—Ardel Wray. Mark Robson. Thea (Ellen Drew)
“Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”
—Mary B. Harris (18741957)