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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)

—Cicero

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

—Cicero

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The people's good is the highest law.

—Cicero

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

—Cicero

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A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

—Chaim Weizmann

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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

—Aristotle

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Law is mind without reason.

—Aristotle

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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

—Aristotle

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

—Aristotle

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Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law. In monarchies and empires physical force restrains the multitude and maintains government. In a democracy all depends on the intelligence and conscience of the people.

—John Ireland (bishop)

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Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.

—Arcesilaus

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Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

—Ambrosius Macrobius

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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

—Albert Einstein

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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

—Abraham Lincoln

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