Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThe health of the people lies in the supremacy of the law.
Nöel Coward
View AuthorPoachers are unaware of the closed season.
Benjamin Disraeli
View AuthorWhen men are pure, laws are useless; when they are corrupt, laws are broken.
Ángel Ganivet
View AuthorTo eradicate bad practices, the law is much less useful than individual efforts.
Fray Antonio de Guevara
View AuthorA good judge should not twist the laws to fit their condition, but rather twist their condition to fit the laws.
John Locke
View AuthorThe laws were made for men, and not men for the laws.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorLaws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorNo man is so good that, when exposed to the actions of the law, he would not be condemned to the gallows at least ten times.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe law should be like death, which exempts no one.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe useless laws weaken the necessary ones.
Thomas Moore
View AuthorI would defend the law, even if it were just to protect myself from myself.
Dorothy Parker
View AuthorIt's a relief to find in a book of rules or laws something that will never affect you.