The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Quotations
Law
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 law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
-William Ewart Gladstone
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
