Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Good morals lead to good laws.
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
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.
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.