Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and...

  1. Home
  2. Harriet Martineau quotes
  3. Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and...
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
Help
Laws
May
Observation
Vice