“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press”
Mark Twain
“If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism”
Thomas Jefferson
“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
Pythagoras
“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”
Gerry Spence
“The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
Raymond Chandler
“We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
