The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Law
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 people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
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
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
