Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
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