Law

• "Legislate in haste, repent at leisure." ~proverb

• "Covenants with the sword are but words." ~Thomas Hobbes

• "So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers." ~ Napoléon Bonaparte
• "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." ~Robert Frost

• "Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft." ~Don Feder

• "It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself." ~Justice Casey Percell

• "More laws can't make us safe from the tragedies that are the inevitable result of freedom, and of living around other people. Life is real, life is uncertain, life is inevitably unsafe. Measures to make it safe at all costs come with dangers of their own." ~Brian Doherty

• "There are no good laws except simple laws." ~ Chrétien de Malesherbes (1775)

• "Land is built by law." ~ Old Swedish Law book

• Dick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
• Cade: Nay, that I mean to do. ~ William Shakespeare, Henry the Sixth, Part II

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See also

• Justice