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White serif text on a black background, a quotation from Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!" Sir Thomas More: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?" Roper: "Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!" More: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide,…

Sir Thomas More Gives the Devil Benefit of Law

A screenshot of Thomas More's famous 'give the Devil benefit of law' speech from A Man for All Seasons, a lesson in due process that English class and civics class once taught.

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White serif text on a black background, a quotation from Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!" Sir Thomas More: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?" Roper: "Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!" More: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide,…

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