The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Law
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
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"
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
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
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
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
