Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Quotations
Law
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
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
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"
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
