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"July 15, 2019 (6 days before the Yuen Long attack): I am very confident to the ability of our people from Luk Heung, Yuen Long. The more they come, the more we can do. We just beat them up, completely defeat them, right?"
"So why should people respect and obey the law? There are, of course, many answers, but the answer I gave myself is this: we can ask people to obey the law if it is the best approximation to justice. Which implies that we are duty bound to listen to criticisms of the law, and make sincere efforts to make the law better, and correct mistakes as much as possible. Justice is the soul of the law without which the rule of law descends to the level of rule by force, even if it is force by majority."
"I understand Sir Thomas More is the patron saint of the legal profession [...]. His famous last words were well authenticated. I beg to slightly adapt and adopt them: I stand the law's good servant but the people's first. For the law must serve the people, not the people the law."