Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

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.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law read more

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.

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.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.