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The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

—Francis Bacon, 1615

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1594

The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

—George Eliot, 1860

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

—William Empson, 1928

Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb