Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

— Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

— Unknown source

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

— Unknown Source

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

— Unknown Source

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

— Charles de Montesquieu, French lawyer and political philosopher, 1689-1755

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

— Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

— Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London’s first police force, 1707-1754

Law’s history is the history of the moral development of the race.

— Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

— Finley Peter Dunne, U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

— Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President-as quoted upon seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, 1858-1919

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

— Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, Sr., British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1788

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

— Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD
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