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Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Law is mind without reason.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

You can't build a society without law.

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