Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
The law doesn't create a right.