Poets Better than Politicians...

The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong.
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn nor to Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.
(A.E. Housman, Last Poems, XII)

Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them, so what good are they? (Ammon Hennacy)

Die einen sagen, es gibt zuviel Freiheit - die anderen, es gibt noch nicht genug Freiheit. In Wirklichkeit fehlt die Grundfreiheit, die man gerade brauchen würde: die Freiheit, nach eigener Wahl frei oder nicht frei zu sein. (Max Nettlau)

[Translation: The one say, there is too much liberty – the others, there is not enough liberty yet. In reality the fundamental freedom which one would just need is missing: The freedom to be free or not free after a choice of one's own.]