Tuesday, June 15, 2010

"There will be so many hard cases that everything will go soft."

We are always near the breaking-point when we care only for what is legal and nothing for what is lawful. Unless we have a moral principle about such delicate matters as marriage and murder, the whole world will become a welter of exceptions with no rules. There will be so many hard cases that everything will go soft.

-September 21, 1929, Illustrated London News

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