The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Either the law exists, or it does not.
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
That which is not just is not law.
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.
The Law is the Law!
A government of laws, and not of men.