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"Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws." William Penn

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it." Niccolò Machiavelli

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." Sun Tzu

“I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it." Mark Twain (30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910)

"The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet." Wendell Phillips

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." Mark Twain

"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights, We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write in the next chapter and to write in the books of law." Lyndon B. Johnson

"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still." Roscoe Pound

"As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity." Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"Public opinion's always in advance of the law." John Galsworthy