Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.