Advantage Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Good morals lead to good laws.

— Chuck Norris

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all,…

— Aristotle

What can laws do without morals?

— Benjamin Franklin

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality…

— Robert Bork

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

— Emile Durkheim

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

— William E. Gladstone

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

— Honore de Balzac

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore

“Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.”

— Lawrence Goldstone

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

— William H. Seward