If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
What is crucial is there be laws.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.'
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.