Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Good morals lead to good laws.