You can't have it both ways--you've got to stand pat on the law, or else see the law spit on right and left, in the end, and NOBODY safe.

It's either law or--" "But," says Grimes, "there's a higher law than that on the statute books.

There's--" "There's a lot of flub-dub," says the colonel, "about higher laws and unwritten laws.

But we've got high enough law written if we live up to it.

There's--" "Colonel Tom Buckner," says Buck Hightower, "what kind of law was it when you shot Ed Howard fifteen years ago?
What--" "You're out of order," says the chairman, "Colonel Buckner has the floor.