“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”

“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99”

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

“Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.”

“What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.”