Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-10-21 Oct 21, 2005If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.~ A. K. GriffinLaws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank HerbertThe minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.~ Will Rogers Oct 20, 2005We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.~ Benjamin R. TuckerJustice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.~ Blaise PascalCrime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Oct 19, 2005The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.~ Cornelius TacitusLaws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.~ Albert EinsteinLaws do not persuade just because they threaten.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Oct 18, 2005The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.~ Clarence S. DarrowPetty laws breed great crimes.~ OuidaLaws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.~ Jonathan Swift Oct 17, 2005The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.~ Justice William O. DouglasWe enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.~ Thomas SowellThe shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.~ Walt Whitman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print