Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Quotations
Law
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
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
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"
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
