Law
Otto von Bismarck on Law
“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.”
Winston Churchill on Law
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Benjamin Franklin on Liberty
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Robert Frost on Law
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Benjamin Franklin on Politics
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
Publius Tacitus on Laws
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
Glaser and Way on Law
“The problem with any unwritten law is that you don’t know where to go to erase it.”
Anatole France on Law
“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.”