If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
The law doesn't create a right.
That which is not just is not law.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.