A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Law
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"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
