A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Law
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
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
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
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
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
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"
