Be good Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

— William Penn

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

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Governments are not always right.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

“If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule…

— Dale Carpenter

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

— Aristotle

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

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

— Walter Savage Landor

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and…

— Mark Twain

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

— William Penn

I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for another individual.…

— Rob Halford