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"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."
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"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."

"There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices."

"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it."

"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."

"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."

"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."

"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
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