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
Quotations
Law
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
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
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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
