Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Quotations
Law
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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
-Scriptures "Matthew 7.12"
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
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
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
