“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”
-Clarence Darrow
“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
-Ayn Rand
“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two men are called a Law Firm, and three or more are called a Congress.”
- John Adams
“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”
- Lao Tsu
"Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
“Where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
-John Locke
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