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The law is the only sure protection of the weak and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
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Such persons should recollect that without law there can be no real practical liberty; that when law is trampled under foot tyranny rules, whether it appears in the form of a military despotism or of popular violence.
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The great law of morality ought to have a national as well as a personal and individual application.
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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other, arising from their necessary and unavoidable relations; which rights and duties there is no common human authority to protect and enforce.