Bentham’s Law
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Catt’s Law
Carrie Lane Catt
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Cicero’s Laws for Historians
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first law is that the historian shall never dare to set down what is false; the second that he shall never dare to conceal the truth; the third that there shall be no suspicion in his work of either favouritism or prejudice.
Faber’s First Law
Harold Faber
If there isn’t a law there will be.
Kant’s Categorical Imperative
Emanuel Kant
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time wish that it should become a universal law.
Papagiannis’s Law
Michael Papagiannis
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Rousseau’s Law of Laws
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Selden’s Law
John Selden
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
St. Augustine’s Law to End All Laws
St. Augustine
Necessity knows no law.
Swift’s Law of Laws
Jonathan Swift
Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
