P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As Prime Minister at a National Party meeting in Stellenbosch, 10 April 1980, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 85
“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.
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