"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."

Law, Miracles, Order, Problems

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"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"One with the law is a majority."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

World

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

Government

"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities."

Logic

"If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold."

Light

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

Men

"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."

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"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."

Wisdom

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

Desire

"If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you."

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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

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