The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Law
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
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
