Bad laws Quote by Wendell Phillips Download Open image “The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.” — Wendell Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad laws Feet Law Men Teach Use
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 Copy Share Image
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them — Demonax The Cynic Copy Share Image
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. — Demonax Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
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