It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
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.
No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
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