I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast...and if you cut them down and you're just the man to do it do you really think you could stand upright in the winds which would blow then? Yes, I give the devil benefit of the law for my own safety sake.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community