The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
The Law is the Law!
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
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.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
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 trouble with law is lawyers.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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