Above all, though, he emphasized service and humility. Laws were not to be invented by politicians or judges, or, most important, righteous prosecutors. Echoing Demosthenes, whom he had studied all those days back at Amherst, he said, “Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.” Laws must rest, he said, “on the eternal foundations of righteousness.”
Men Do not create laws they discover them. Laws must be based on the natural and eternal principles of righteousness
