It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. (John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge)

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

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