No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
There is no law governing all things.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
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