Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The law cannot be enforced when everyone is an offender.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is made ... and at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)