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 2. A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

 3. A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

 4. A state is better governed which has but few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

 5. A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

 6. All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

 7. All law has for its object to confirm and exalt into a system the exploitation of the workers by the ruling class.

 8. All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

 9. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

10. As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained.

11. Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

12. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

13. Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

14. Every law is an infraction of liberty.

15. Few laws are of universal application. It is of the nature of our law that it has dealt not with man in general, but with him in relationships.

16. Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

17. God works wonders now and then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man!

18. Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

19. Good order is the foundation of all good things.

20. He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgement, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

21. Heaven and earth unite to drip sweet dew. Without the command of men, it drips evenly over all. As soon as there were regulations and institutions, there were names (differentiation of things). As soon as there are names, know that it is time to stop. It is by knowing when to stop that one can be free from danger.

22. I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

23. If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

24. If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

25. Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.

26. In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

27. In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong, in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

28. In law nothing is certain but expense.

29. It is criminal to steal a purse. It is daring to steal a fortune. It is a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

30. It is the bridle and the spur that make a good horse.

31. Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

32. Law is a form of order, and good law must necessarily mean good order.

33. Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

34. Law should be like death, which spares no one.

35. Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

36. Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

37. Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons: those that make them, those that execute them, and those that suffer if they break them.

38. Laws are silent in the midst of arms.

39. Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.

40. Laws in their Original Design are not made to draw Men into Crimes, but to prevent Crimes; Laws are Buoys set upon dangerous Places under Water, to warn Mankind, that such Sands or Rocks are there, and the Language in them is, Come here at your Peril.

41. Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

42. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

43. Litigation - A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

44. Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

45. Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

46. No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

47. No laws are binding on the human subject which assault the body or violate the conscience.

48. No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do weask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

49. Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

50. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plottedd death shall perish by his own plot.

51. Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where tho' all things differ, all agree.

52. Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

53. Order is Heavens' first law.

54. Order is the first requisite of liberty.

55. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

56. Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

57. Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

58. Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

59. Petty laws breed great crimes.

60. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-Australian act that could most easily defeat us.

61. Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

62. That law may be set down as good which is certain in meaning, just in precept, convenient in execution, agreeable to the form of government, and productive of virtue in those that live under it.

63. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from the source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

64. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

65. The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

66. The fewer laws there are in a given world, the nearer it is to the will of the Absolute; the more laws there are in a given world, the greater the mechanicalness, the further it is from the will of the Absolute.

67. The first virtue, son, if thou wilt learn, Is to restrain and keep well thy tongue.

68. The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order.

69. The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill.

70. The law is reason from passion.

71. The law is the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and there fore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

72. The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

73. 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.

74. The laws of God, the laws of man He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

75. The more taboos and restrictions there are in the world The poorer the people will be....The more laws and regulations are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be.

76. The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong, They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery! Big fish alone escape from thee!

77. The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law, are like two men ducking their heads in a bucket, and daring each other to remain longest under water.

78. The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince.

79. The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

80. The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove.

81. There is no act more moral between men than that of ruleand obedience.

82. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method and discipline.

83. There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature.

84. There is no worse torture than the torture of laws.

85. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

86. To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers.

87. What is still calm can easily be grasped. What is still unmanifest can easily be considered. What is still fragile can easily be broken. What is still small can easily be scattered. Deal with things before they appear. Put things in order before disorder arises.

88. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

89. When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

90. When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

91. Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.