Fact is, you work too hard...the universe won’t run down if you don’t wind it. - Robert A. Heinlein

The law is whatever you can convince a court it is.

“May I say without offense that the reception given my sort on your great planet is sometimes something that one must be philosophical about?”
“I know. I’m sorry. My own people, most of them, are honestly convinced that the prejudices of their native village were ordained by the Almighty. I wish it were different.”

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.