The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Law
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
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"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
