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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 998
AUTHOR: Robert Bolt (1924–95)
QUOTATION: The law is not a “light” for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
ATTRIBUTION: ROBERT BOLT, A Man for All Seasons, act II, p. 92 (1967). Sir Thomas More is speaking.
SUBJECTS: Law