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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antith

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken

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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

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