Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Laws are the silent assessors of God. W. R. Alger.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. Louis XIV.

Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all. J. G. Holland.

Laws are usually most beneficial in operation on the people who would have most strongly objected to their enactment. Ruskin.

Law's costly; tak' a pint and 'gree. Sc. Pr.

Laws exist in vain for those who have not the courage and the means to defend them. Macaulay.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the 5 law. Goldsmith.

Laws, like cobwebs, catch flies, but let hornets go free. Pr.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides. C. H. Parkhurst.

Laws should be like death, which spares no one. Montesquieu.