People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if read more

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

The law is above the law, you know.

The law is above the law, you know.

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for read more

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not
tremble.
[It., Ove son leggi,
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not
tremble.
[It., Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]