Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
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
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle