I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Law
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
