Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Quotations
Law
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
