(128 quotes found)
“The law is silent during war”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.”
Isabel Paterson
“When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.”
Richard M. Nixon
“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
“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.”
Ovid
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept”
William Shakespeare
“Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers”
Spanish Proverb
“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them”
Allen Tucker
