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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.