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"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
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"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
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"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."
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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."
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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
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"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."
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"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
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"The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions."
History
"The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction."
Society
"The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing."
Art
"In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world."
History
"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil."
History
"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption."
Truth
"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."
Success
"Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny."
Trust
"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."
World
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
Law
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