When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
Frederic Bastiat
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Edmund Burke
The grand fallacy of the political left is that decisions are better made by third parties who pay no price for being wrong
Thomas Sowell
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
Walter E. Williams
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell