“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
“Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them”
Demonax the Cynic
“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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
“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”
Norman Mailer
“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
