05/07/2025
1. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
2. "The law is reason free from passion."
— Aristotle
3. "Law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice."
— Lydia Maria Child
4. "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
— Tacitus
5. "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law."
— Thomas Hobbes
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🏛️ On the Purpose and Nature of Law
6. "The good of the people is the greatest law."
— Cicero (Latin: Salus populi suprema lex esto)
7. "A law that is not just is a code that the powerful use to oppress the powerless."
— Bryan Stevenson
8. "Where there is no law, there is no freedom."
— John Locke
9. "Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
