Citizens Quote by Oliver DeMille

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from…

— Bertolt Brecht

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

— Mark Steyn

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody…

— David C. Driskell

“Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written…

— Ben Carson

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

— Myrtle Reed

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those…

— George Savile

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense;…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a…

— Mark Steyn

“Aren’t all laws simply man’s attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not “legislation” simply our combined agreement as to what is “right” and “wrong”?…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson