I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald Reagan

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George Washington

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West