“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
Frederic Bastiat
“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
Louis D. Brandeis
