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• It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. -- Aristotle
• The New York State Vehicle and Traffic Laws state that "Two vehicles which are passing each other in opposite directions shall have the right of way.
• Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Eloisa to Abelard, Line 74...
• Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws.
  -- Solo...
• It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
  In one of those "true facts" books there was an explanation for this law....
• Although Poles suffer official censorship, a pervasive secret police and laws similar to those in the USSR
  here are thousands of underground publications, a legal independent Church, private agriculture, and the East bloc's first and only independent trade union federation, NSZZ Solidarnosc, which is an affiliate of both the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labor....
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Cornelius Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.