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Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
— Paul Craig Roberts
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
— Joseph Farah
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
— Ashly Lorenzana
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
— Robert Bork
What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
— Donald Miller
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
— Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
— John Adams
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
— Kirk Cameron
No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.
— G.K. Chesterton
In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.
— Alain De Benoist
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
— Baron De Montesquieu
What idiot told you the law was concerned with morality?
— V. St. Clair
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
— Gilles Deleuze
Right isn't always legal.
— J.S.B. Morse
Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which 'the law' was founded.
— Robert Partridge
I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.
— William Shakespeare
In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...
— Joseph Telushkin
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire
If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.
— Scott Klusendorf
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
— Winston Churchill
It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.
— J. Budziszewski
We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.
— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
— George William Russell
The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
— Larry McMurtry
All the social ills that
law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to
learn and grow. — Jeremy Locke
law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to
learn and grow. — Jeremy Locke
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
— Julian Baggini
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.
— Isaiah Berlin
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
— William Woodruff
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.
— Frederic Bastiat
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
— Larry Christenson
Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What can laws do without morals?
— Benjamin Franklin
He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.
— Lionel Shriver
Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality. We do not punish the leopard for its wildness.
— William Landay
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
— Criss Jami
We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
— Aristotle.