Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will read more
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there read more
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.
