335 Quotes About Laws

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.