Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.