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Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave a society based on the rule of law. But as long as you live in such a society you must obey the law.

Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave the society based on the rule of law. But so long as you live in such a society, you must obey the law.

Jerry Pournelle

Mr. Prince, would you like to know the most significant event in the history of freedom?””The American Revolution?””A defensible choice, a close second even, but not mine. I would choose the moment when the Roman plebians required the patricians to write down the twelve tables of the law and put them where everyone could see them — thereby proclaimed the law supreme over the politicians. The rule of law is the essence of freedom.