There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Doris Lessing

During war, the laws are silent.
Quintus Tullius Cicero

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
Bob Inglis

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner

I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
Martin Van Buren

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Martin Van Buren

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
Miriam Makeba

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
William Howard Taft

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas Chamfort

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Henri Poincare

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Henri Poincare

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
William Lyon Mackenzie King