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• Les Miserables Metalaw All laws, whether good, bad, or indifferent, must be obeyed to the letter.
• Good laws, if not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
  -- Aristotle (384-322 BCE) "Nicomachean Ethics" IV,8,1294a,4...
• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Baco
• Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or no
  but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation....
• If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down.
  If the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down....
• If all children had obeyed their parents, we would still live in the stoneage.
• Laws are only words words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen.
  Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher....
• There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept.
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• Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. -- Francis H. Bradley