A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

In time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Rick Warren

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Clarence Darrow

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
Robert Benchley

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de Montaigne