Saturday, May 22, 2010

on law

Good men must not obey the laws too well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) _
Essays_ writer and philosopher q.awad

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato q.awad

In a democracy, laws are the agreed upon boundaries between each person's rights and a formal expression of each person's responsibilities. - pup

Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed. - Junius Henri Browne, 1893, journalist q.Laura Lee _The Futurist_

Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - Solon q.awad

One law for the lion and ox is oppression. - William Blake (1757-1827) poet, engraver, and painter

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. - Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) q.marsha1945@AUSTIN.RR.COM

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804Dec21-1881) q.marsha1945@AUSTIN.RR.COM uga2009Dec21

  1. Laws are society's common sense, written down for the stupid.
  2. The stupid refuse to read. Thank you for choosing to read.
  3. - q.Chagatai Khan

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