Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.