Funny Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

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

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't…

— Calvin Coolidge

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is…

— Thomas Hobbes

The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

— Noam Chomsky

“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within…

— Angela Davis

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who…

— Gerry Spence