William Roper So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More Yes.
What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to
get after the Devil?
Roper I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned
round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's
laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to
do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that
would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own
safety's sake.
-- Robert Bolt. A Man for All Seasons 1962.