1. The real purpose of the law is to induce those governed by the law to seek their own virtue. ——Aquinas
2. Those who do not know that they lack free will are the real poor. ——Nietzsche
3. Freedom is the right to do things within the scope of the law. ——Cicero
4. Those who enact laws suppress violence and support the weak, hoping that they will be difficult to violate and easy to avoid. ——Ban Gu's "Han Shu Criminal Law Chronicles"
5. The law provides protection against arbitrariness. It gives people a sense of security and reliability and prevents them from being in ominous darkness in the future. ——Brunner
6. The constitution is a piece of paper with the rights of the people written on it. ——Lenin
7. If our law is just a sprout of the laws of nature, it is undoubtedly a good law. Such laws can suppress evil and promote good. ——Alexander Dumas, "Selected Works of Mahili"
8. Within the law, there should be justice and human kindness. ——Antigo Nie
9. Law is the crystallization of social customs and ideas. ——Wilson
10. The punishment provided by the law is not for private interests, but for the interests of the public; part of it relies on harmful coercion, and part of it relies on the effectiveness of example. ——Grotius
11. There are only two things in the world that can deeply shock our hearts. One is the brilliant starry sky above our heads, and the other is the lofty moral law in our hearts. ——Kant
12. In a democratic country, the law is the king; in an autocratic country, the king is the law. ——Marx
13. Freedom is not unlimited freedom. Freedom is the power to do anything permitted by law. ——Montesquieu
14. A small, fleeting expectation can often arise from a purely natural environment, but a strong and lasting expectation can only come from law. . ——Bentham
15. The power of law should follow citizens just like the shadow follows the body. ——Beccaria (Italian) "On Crime and Punishment"
16. The constitution is an endless, flowing discourse in which generations of people in a country participate in dialogue.
——Lauren Chaper