INSIGHT

“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.” —Niccolo Machiavelli

“The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.” —John Quincy Adams

“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.” —H. L. Mencken

“If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” —Sir Winston Churchill