Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
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