Laws Govern

Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or govern:

“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)