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LAW : A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

LAW : Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

LAW : Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. (John P. Curran: Irish orator, politician, lawyer, and judge, 1750-1817)

LAW : For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. (Unknown Source: )

LAW : Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Unknown Source: )

LAW : He who saves his country does not violate the law. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

LAW : If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

LAW : It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

LAW : It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not. (Remy de Gourmont: French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic, 1858-1915)

LAW : Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

LAW : Law stands mute in the midst of arms. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

LAW : 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)

LAW : Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

LAW : Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Oliver Goldsmith: Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)

LAW : Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

LAW : Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. (Law Maxim: Concise, fundamental principles that guide legal reasoning, decision-making, and interpretation)

LAW : No man is above the law, and no man is below it. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

LAW : No one is above the law. (British principle of the Magna Carta, established in 1215) (MAGNA CARTA: )

LAW : Public opinion’s always in advance of the law. (John Galsworthy: English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

LAW : Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

LAW : The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

LAW : The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science. (Charles Macklin: Irish actor and dramatist who revolutionized theatre in the 18th century by introducing a ‘natural style’ of acting, 1697-1797)

LAW : The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Unknown Source: )

LAW : The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. (Lao-Tsu: )

LAW : There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)

LAW : Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755)

LAW : We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

LAW : Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923)

LAW : 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)

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