The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
Bad laws are the
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke
Bad Laws
Roe v. Wade was
Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. Fred Thompson
Bad facts make bad
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain. Frank Zappa
Bad facts make bad
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Frank Zappa
Anyone who takes it
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. Denis Diderot
It is not possible
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. Carrie Nation
It may be said
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which … Read more
We cannot, by total
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong… There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. Alexander Bickel
When I so pressingly
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, … Read more