If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

The law is far, the fist is near.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.

It is better to live unknown to the law.

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

Petty laws breed great crimes.