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Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument read more
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated read more
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of read more
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
The law's made to take care o' raskills.
The law's made to take care o' raskills.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
