Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Quotations
Law
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
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
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
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"
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
