Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image