The Mission Of Law Is Not To

When Law And Morality Contradict Each Other, The Citizen Has The Cruel Alternative Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Losing His Respect For The Law.

But How Is This Legal Plunder To Be Identified? Quite Simply. See If The Law Takes From Some Persons What Belongs To Them And Gives It To Other Persons To Whom It Does Not Belong. See If The Law Benefits One Citizen At The Expense Of Another By Doing What The Citizen Himself Cannot Do Without Committing A Crime.

And What Is Liberty, Whose Very Name Makes The Heart Beat Faster And Shakes The World? Is It Not The Union Of All Liberties - Liberty Of Conscience, Of Education, Of Association, Of The Press, Of Travel, Or Labor, Or Trade?

The Worst Thing That Can Happen To A Good Cause Is Not To Be Skillfully Attacked, But To Be Ineptly Defended.

If You Wish To Prosper, Let Your Customer Prosper. When People Have Learned This Lesson, Everyone Will Seek His Individual Welfare In The General Welfare. Then Jealousies Between Man And Man, City And City, Province And Province, Nation And Nation, Will No Longer Trouble The World.