More quotations tagged with “laws”
What power has law where only money rules.
—Gaius Petronius
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
—Felix Frankfurter
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
—Cornelius Tacitus
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
—Cicero
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
—Cicero