The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
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