"The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."
— Frédéric Bastiat
"Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed."
— Richard John Neuhaus
"Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it."
— Philip K. Dick
"[W]hen the officials trusted to execute law faithfully violate laws regularly, they lose their presumption of legitimacy."
— Andrew McCarthy
"Consequences that are not sufficiently painful or sufficiently scary aren’t consequences[.]"
— Jonah Goldberg
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
— usually attributed to Lee Segal (Segal's Law)
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