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LAWS: 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)
LAWS: For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. (Unknown source)
LAWS: Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Unknown Source)
LAWS: Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Unknown Source)
LAWS: Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Charles de Montesquieu, French lawyer and political philosopher, 1689-1755)
LAWS: 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)
LAWS: 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)
LAWS: 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)
LAWS: 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)
LAWS: When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)
LAWS: 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)
LAWS: 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: Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)
LAWS: 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)
LAWS: We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)