“You must recognize that some things that are legally right are not morally right.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

“Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?”

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.”

“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.”

“Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.”

“Law that is unclear is objectionable on many grounds. It confuses the courts, adds to their work and wastes the time of all who have to unravel it. It leaves the citizen uncertain of his duties and obligations, and exposed to the possibility of penal sanctions for unwitting violations — a situation as ridiculous as it is unfair."
 
"Justice demands that the law ? and particularly the criminal law ? refrains from penalizing conduct "unmeet for punishment", and discriminating against any particular section of the community. Road traffic law offends against both these principles. It seeks to punish behaviour to which attaches little, if any, moral blame; and it is discriminatory, no less by reason of the inescapably random nature of its enforcement than by its denial to the driver of equal treatment by the law.”

“It is hard to believe that prosecuting more and more people every year is the best way of securing a good-tempered community, that accepts and observes codes of conduct designed for everyone's safety and convenience.”

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

“Custody rates for some quite petty offending have quadrupled, motoring offences for example. ... They don't need to be in jail in such numbers”

“One in 10 murderers in London goes free. Three in 10 armed robbers do so too. Fewer than one in a 1,000 motoring offences goes unpunished. So, if you have to murder or commit an armed robbery, don't speed away and you'll have reasonable odds of living to kill or rob another day. ”

“Our trip opened my eyes to how insane the rules are in Britain — CCTV cameras everywhere, congestion charge — a ludicrous nanny state.”