Law and lawyers Quote by Demonax The Cynic

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

— Demonax

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

— Walter Savage Landor

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

— Walter Savage Landor

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— C. S. Lewis

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

— Calvin Coolidge

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

“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. That is why we must go on…

— C.S. Lewis

Laws are not made for the good.

— Socrates

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

— James Anthony Froude