“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure”
Thomas Jefferson
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders”
Lao Tzu
“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
