(128 quotes found)
“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
“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.
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein
“Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different”
Hart Pomerantz
“The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders”
Lao Tzu
“Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass”
Jane Bryant Quinn
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”
Henry David Thoreau
