"Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones."
— Crime

January 1, 1970

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Denis Diderot, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. .