Charles Murray Quotes

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

The laws themselves become traps and snares, in which plain honest men, who were unacquainted with logical quirks and subtleties, were catched.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

People must live with the laws that we make.

The main product of government is laws.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Any legal system developed by the human community, being as it is a fruit of historical development, carries a seal of limitation and imperfection.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

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

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

A [legal] code is almost the only blessing, perhaps it is the only blessing, which absolute governments are better fitted to confer on a nation than popular governments.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Law is king of all.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

The more laws, the less justice.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

The law is immoral.