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Laws, like houses, lean on one another
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be
Lawsuit is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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