Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes, without being aware of it, the soul of a slave.” ~ Georges Ripert (1880-1958) French lawyer, Secretary of State for Public Instruction and Youth in the Vichy RegimeSource: Le Déclin du Droit. Etude sur la législation contemporaine (Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949), p. 94