ROPER: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!


THOMAS MORE: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?


ROPER: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!


THOMAS MORE: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it--d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.


- Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons