A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Law
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
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
