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.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.

The law is above the law, you know.

The law is above the law, you know.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

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.

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage read more

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, read more

Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.