>>that's why we live in a society of laws. That is not why we have a society of laws " The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It

>>that's why we live in a society of laws. That is not why we have a society of laws " The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all. " -- Frédéric Bastiat The law was not founded to curb liberties, or to control populations, the law was founded to protect liberties and the allow people to be free "But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. "