“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them”
Allen Tucker
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“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 power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Mark Twain
“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals”
Niccolo Machiavelli
