Samuel Johnson Quote

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.


The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (ed. 1785)


A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought ...

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought ...

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought ...

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought ...