The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
Andrew Jackson
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
C.S Lewis
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws without morals are in vain.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
Paul Harvey
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
