"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."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1965), trans. Allan Gilbert, book 1, chapter 18, p. 241.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Law
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Law
418 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Law →
Related Quotes
"We have strict statutes and most biting laws."
"Quid leges sine moribus Vanæ proficiunt?"
"To the law and to the testimony."
"'Tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you gave me nothing for 't."
"The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it."
"The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws."
"A government of laws and not of men."
"One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their…"
"Law is king of all."
"A cloud of witnesses."