To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.