Adapted Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them

— Jonathan Swift

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for…

— Frederic Bastiat

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

The more laws, the less justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of…

— Jacque Fresco

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

— Hillary Clinton

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes,…

— H. L. Mencken

More laws, less justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Emile Durkheim