Acceptable Quote by Dallin H. Oaks

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann

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

— Jonathan Swift

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

— Alexander Hamilton

What is crucial is there be laws.

— Andre Weil

I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the most creative…

— Kenneth Cole

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws…

— Kimon Nicolaides

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set…

— Vint Cerf