Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Vittorio Alfieri

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund Burke

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
Jack Kevorkian

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Dan Quayle

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Leon Trotsky

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Daniel Webster

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
Grover Cleveland

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford