Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Quotations
Law
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"
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
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
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"
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
