Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quotations
Law
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
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
