Oliver Wendell Holmes on the legal system

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Frédéric Bastiat on paving the way for plunder

When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it.

~ Frédéric Bastiat