In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler... ...
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Even written laws should not always stay the same.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
"One must observe the proper rites."
“The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.”
What is conservatism is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried.