laws
Found 10 thoughts of laws
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
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 But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.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
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Sir John Powell
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
