Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. (Henry David Thoreau)

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Henry David Thoreau

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