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@@ -157,4 +157,17 @@ Now, it is of great moment that well-drawn laws should themselves define all the
 When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
 Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
 The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
-The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
+The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
+There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.
+Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies, Great ones break thro' before your eyes.
+The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings; it would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill.
+He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
+Laws are but words. Spoken, they may be ineffectual as the air that bears them. Even when written, they are of no effect unless enacted by people who understand them and take them seriously.
+If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
+The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.
+Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?
+Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in.
+The problem with law is that it is blind. It is quite similar to the plight of a young blindfolded child trying to hit a piñata -- there are always chances of collateral damage. The blindfolded statue of Justice which is supposed to portray Her objectivity and therefore Her greatest strength also becomes Her greatest weakness. She is a victim to interpretative machinations and subjectivity.
+If we look to the historical influences which have actually enacted human codes, and which have governed their administration, it is at first difficult to understand the sanctity which is thus attributed to the law and its ministers. And if, further, we examine the contents of human codes, and observe how far short they fall of enforcing, even within the limits that must bound all attempts at such enforcement, anything like an absolute morality, this difficulty is not diminished. Between law and equity there is, perhaps there must always be, a considerable interval. Between law and absolute morality there is at times patent contradiction. The undue protection of class interests, the neglect of interests of large classes; the legislation which consults, chiefly and above all else, the profit of the legislator, whether he be king, or noble, or popular assembly; the legislation which postpones moral to material interests, and which makes havoc of man's highest good in order to gratify his lower instincts, his passing caprice, his unreasoning passion -- all this and much else appears to forbid enthusiasm for human law.
+Law is the supreme power in the state, through its legislature, commanding what is right, and condemning what is wrong.
+The wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application thereof; taking into consideration by what means laws may be made certain.

law_quotes_authors.txt

@@ -157,4 +157,17 @@ ARISTOTLE
 NELSON MANDELA
 NORMAN MACDONALD
 CHARLES DICKENS
-VICTOR COUSIN
+VICTOR COUSIN
+AUNG SAN SUU KYI
+BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
+DOUGLAS JERROLD
+HORACE MANN
+ALAN KEYES
+WINSTON CHURCHILL
+GEORGE SAVILE
+HARUKI MURAKAMI
+WILLIAM SHENSTONE
+SAMIR NAZARETH
+HENRY PARRY LIDDON
+CALVIN TOWNSEND
+FRANCIS BACON