In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906

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

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. – JustinianI, Law Code, A.D. 535