The law doesn't create a right.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Either the law exists, or it does not.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
That which is not just is not law.
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
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