Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.