“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Confucius
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
James Madison
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.”
Lucille Kallen
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Mark Twain
