Laws Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about laws.

John Locke

John Locke

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The laws were made for men, and not men for the laws.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Laws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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No 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

Montesquieu

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The law should be like death, which exempts no one.

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore

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I would defend the law, even if it were just to protect myself from myself.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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It's a relief to find in a book of rules or laws something that will never affect you.

Pythagoras of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos

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Oh legislator! Don't give me laws for the people, but people for the laws.

The legislator should not aim for the happiness of a certain order of citizens to the exclusion of others, but the happiness of all.

Fernando de Rojas

Fernando de Rojas

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Unjust is the law that is not equal for all.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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In all things there seems to exist as a law a circle.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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Everywhere the strongest have made the laws and oppressed the weak.