Character Quote by C.S. Lewis

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

— C. S. Lewis

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though…

— Patrick Henry

“The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them

— Demonax The Cynic

“Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man? Meanwhile, laws…

— John Stuart Mill

“we know that men find themselves under a moral law, which they did not make, and cannot quite forget even when they try, and…

— C.S. Lewis

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

— Lord Acton

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

— R.J. Rushdoony

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

— Demonax

“Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.”

— Rousas John Rushdoony

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make…

— Bastiat, Frederick