Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Custom and convention Legal theory Law

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Gorky Incident

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Humorist Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Gorky Incident. 1906.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "The Gorky Incident." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

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No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

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Theodore Roosevelt
Genre
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Language
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Time
1903 1900s 20th century
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Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Third Annual Message to Congress." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 7 Dec. 1903, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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William Blackstone
Source
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1765 1760s 18th century
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Original Citation

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 7.