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No civilization ... would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. ...
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind abo ...
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from ...
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction ...
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity- ...
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate f ...
As soon as you begin to say "We have always done things this way--perhaps that might be a better way," conscious law-making is beg ...
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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