"Unjust laws aren't laws at all...." - Quote by Saint Augustine
Unjust laws aren't laws at all.
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“We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.”
“Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.”
“I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.”
More on Law
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
“[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.”