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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.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the read more
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in read more
How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!
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.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while read more
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful
will easily break through them.
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.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
