Bad Laws Quotes
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
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Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
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No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
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It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.
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It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence
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Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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Bad laws make bad customs.
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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
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There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.
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