Legal Understanding Quotes

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

Are we to admit that the Constitution was never before rightly understood, even by those who framed it?

Our people love and understand authority better than law. They consider a military chief more accessible than an article of a legal code.

Law lives in the consciousness of the people.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Do judges follow the Constitution? Well, Yes and No. They follow the Constitution as they understand it.

I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

I'm a sporting professional; I don't have a great understanding of tax and legal matters.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?