| "We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "laws are sand, customs are rock. laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain |
| "Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." »Plato |
| "Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws." »Pope Pius XI |
| "When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet." »Hermann Hesse |
| "The more laws, the less justice." »Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis |
| "laws were made to be broken." »Christopher North |
| "laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." »Otto von Bismark |
| "laws do not persuade just because they threaten." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "He who lives in solitude may make his own laws." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." »Aristotle |
| "Good laws have their origins in bad morals." »Ambrosius Macrobius |
| "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon |
| "As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom." »Pythagorus |
| "Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments." »Saville |
| "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature" »George Bernard Shaw |
| "The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be." »Lao Tzu |
| "Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free." »Danish proverb |
| "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." »John Morley |
| "It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others." »Cornelius Tacitus |
| "The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced." »Frank Zappa |
| "Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
| "A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe." »Christine Lane |
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