The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
One with the law is a majority.
Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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 the law of nature and of nations.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
