Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Quotations
Law
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
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
