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(1927- ) Circuit Judge for US Court of Appeals and author

Laws and morals

[A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 9, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags Robert Bork

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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