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.
