For under the smooth legal surface of our society, there are already moving, very lawless things. We are always near the breaking point, when we care only for what is legal, and nothing for what is lawful. Unless we have a moral principle about such delicate matters as marriage and murder, the whole world will become a welter of exceptions with no rules. There will be so many hard cases that everything will go soft.
G. K. Chesterton, As I Was Saying, p.267. Cited by Ravi Zacharias in "The Real Face of Atheism," p.65
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