"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

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According to Kenneth Owen Morgan (The Illustrated History of Britain (1984) p. 421) this was said by Macaulay in 1832. If so, he was quoting a letter written by Edmund Burke in 1777.