Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.