Ignorance Of The Law Quotes by Walther Funk, Joseph Heller, John Selden, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Hobbes, Hunter S. Thompson and many others.
But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
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.
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
