“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Law is born from despair of human nature.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
John Paul Jones
“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
“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“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
