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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and letting it keep one shape till custom make it their perch, and not their terror.

We should never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.

With us, law is nothing unless close, behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes was waste paper, lacking all executive force.


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