Answers Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority;…

— Michel de Montaigne

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not…

— Thomas Jefferson

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one…

— Plato

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify,…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property…

— Frédéric Bastiat

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the…

— Hilary Mantel

The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the…

— Thomas Hobbes