“How can you follow a law when it's makers were corrupt?”
“It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.”
“One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.”
“In the absence of law, winner is the law maker.”