Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Legal vs Lawful

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 exemptions with no rules. There will be so many hard cases that everything will go soft.

G. K. Chesterton, As I Was Saying, pg.267

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