11 How. St. Tr. 1208.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
“Some Laws were meant to be broken.”
Source: City of Glass
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“What is meant by "the Law of the Lord"?”
Collected Works Vol. IV. Part 1 : Before the Face of God, Ch.1 : "On the History and Spirit of Carmel" http://www.karmel.at/ics/edith/stein_9.html
Context: What is meant by "the Law of the Lord"? Psalm 118 which we pray every Sunday and on solemnities at Prime, is entirely filled with the command to know the Law and to be led by it through life. The Psalmist was certainly thinking of the Law of the Old Covenant. Knowing it actually did require life-long study and fulfilling it, life-long exertion of the will. But the Lord has freed us from the yoke of this Law. We can consider the Savior's great commandment of love, which he says includes the whole Law and the Prophets, as the Law of the New Covenant. Perfect love of God and of neighbor can certainly be a subject worthy of an entire lifetime of meditation. But we understand the Law of the New Covenant, even better, to be the Lord himself, since he has in fact lived as an example for us of the life we should live. We thus fulfill our Rule when we hold the image of the Lord continually before our eyes in order to make ourselves like him. We can never finish studying the Gospels.

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
Part 6, Chapter 3
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“How many of you have broken no laws this month?”
As quoted in a speech http://www.toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt to the First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in 1991

“You only need fear the bees if you’ve broken the law.”
That familiar phrase was used to justify every encroachment on citizens’ liberty.
Source: Short fiction, The Lost Canal (2013), p. 346

“Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.”
Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.
Virginia, II, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 430.

Palamau (Bihar), Koch Bihar (Bengal). Alamgirnamah of Mirza Muhammad Kazim , cited in : Sharma, Sri Ram, Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperors, Bombay, 1962. p. 129.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1660s