Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato