Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Quotations
Law
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"
Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them.
-Steve Maraboli
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
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
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
