Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
Quotations
Law
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
