Continue Quote by Alan Guth

Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.

— Frederic Bastiat

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws:…

— Baron de Montesquieu

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent…

— Clifford Allbutt

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

— Solon

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from…

— Henry Brooks Adams

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according…

— Lysander Spooner

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

— Alexander Hamilton

Laws can't control the lawless.

— Wayne LaPierre

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

— Narendra Modi

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate,…

— William Blackstone