“The good needs fear no law,
It is his safety and the bad man's awe.”

“Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

“Behind every bad law, a deep fear.”

“If you have a government of good laws and bad men, you will have a bad government. For bad men will not be bound by good laws.”

“Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.”
rursus prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni, ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor.

“If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.”

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

“The political Liberty of a Citizen is the Peace of Mind arising from the Consciousness, that every Individual enjoys his peculiar Safety; and in order that the People might attain this Liberty, the Laws ought to be so framed, that no one Citizen should stand in Fear of another; but that all of them should stand in Fear of the same Laws….”

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”

“A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.”