It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
If you love the rule of law, you must love it in all of its applications. You cannot only love it when it provides the verdict you seek; you must love it when the verdict goes against you as well.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
Love is stronger than justice.
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.