Do you really think you could stand upright?

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

[Sir Thomas] More: "Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get to the Devil?"

Roper: "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, 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 -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of the law, for my own safety's sake."

-A Man For All Seasons, play by Robert Bolt