 | "Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
- Abraham Lincoln
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| "Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
- Albert Einstein
. |
| "Good laws have their origins in bad morals."
- Ambrosius Macrobius
. |
| "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
- Anatole France
, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7. |
| "Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice."
- Arcesilaus
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| "Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos."
- Archbishop Ireland
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| "Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
- Aristotle
, Politics. |
| "I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
- Aristotle
, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. |
| "Law is mind without reason."
- Aristotle
. |
| "Law is order, and good law is good order."
- Aristotle
, Politics. |