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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.