Laws

Famous quotes containing the word laws:

    “Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
    God said Let Newton be! and all was light.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “There are laws for peace as well as war.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)

    “Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
    —Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)