Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Good morals lead to good laws.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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.
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