“It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.”

Source: Lady Midnight

The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 433)
Time Patrol

The John Clifford Lecture at Coventry (14 July 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 46.
1930
Context: There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that this is true and that, like patriotism, legislation is not enough. The hopes held out when laws are framed are not always realised when laws are passed... What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197, 400-401 (1904).
1900s

The Registrar
All the Names (1997)

Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, “Unlimited Government” (Dec. 29, 1961).

Source: To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton