Famously Said Random quote

Topics/Government

Quotes about laws

126 quotes from 83 people

Most readBy personPage 9 of 9

Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 381
- Comedy
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
Jimmy Walesborn 1966Interview with Reason magazine (June 2007)
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Earl Warren1891–1974Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City (11 November 1962)
- Morality
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915“The Problems of the Colored Race in the South,” lecture, Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 December 1895)
- Voting
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Part VIn context
- Justice
- Time
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.
George Willborn 1941Column, December 23, 2007, “The Gift Of Doing Very Little” at washingtonpost.com.
- Government