The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Quotations
Law
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
