Quotes about laws
126 quotes from 83 people
There’s reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men’s manners ne’er were viler, for your sake.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Epigrams (1616), XXIV: To the Parliament
Barbara Jordan1936–1996Statement to the House Judiciary Committee on the impeachment of Richard Nixon (25 July 1974)Disarmament without checks is but a shadow — and a community without law is but a shell.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963UN speechCertain other societies may respect the rule of force — we respect the rule of law.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at Vanderbilt University
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)- Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Second Jungle Book (1895)- Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Second Jungle Book (1895)
In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing1919–2013Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2
Primo Levi1919–1987If This Is a Man (1947)I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech at New Haven, Connecticut (6 March 1860)
John Locke1632–1704Second Treatise of Government, Ch. VI, sec. 57Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature.
John Locke1632–1704Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690), Ch. IV, sec. 22I grew up here in Washington, D.C., back during the quaint, old-fashioned “Rule of Law” period.
Julia Louis-Dreyfusborn 1961Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (2018)
