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Good morals lead to good laws.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

Law is mind without reason.

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.