Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them.
-Steve Maraboli
Quotations
Law
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
