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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894

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It is easier to commit murder than to justify it. – Aemilius Papinianus

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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