Assuming Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and…

— Anonymous

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

— Antisthenes

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

— Walter Savage Landor

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

— Pittacus of Mytilene

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show…

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Demonax

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

— C. S. Lewis

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