Bad Laws Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws,…
— Alexander Bickel
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It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.
— Tom Driberg
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech,…
— Frank Zappa
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No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION,…
— Melvin J. Ballard
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
— Wendell Phillips
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who…
— John Stuart Mill
Who Wrote These Bad Laws Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Bad Laws Quotes as follows: