We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
What is crucial is there be laws.
The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested by time, but also a mind alert to present needs and the future consequences of public and private legal decisions.
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