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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
- Benjamin Disraeli
An unjust law is no law at all.
- St. Augustine
Unjust laws aren't laws at all.
- St. Augustine
I was concerned about the legality of the program, and so I asked lawyers—of which you got plenty of them in Washington—to determine whether or not I could do this legally. And they came back and said yes.
- George W. Bush
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The law is not concerned with trifles.
- Anonymous
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
- Tony Campolo
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
- John Knox
The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
- Mahatma Gandhi