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All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from read more
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
 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. 
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.
I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.
I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it 
be not changed, according to the law read more 
 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it 
be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, 
which altereth not.