Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
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
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"