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"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."
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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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"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 jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."
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"At one time, this gave rise to the question of whether the legal validity of the money was determined by the stamp of the ruler of the country or by the metal content of the coin; later, to the question of whether the command of the law or the free usage of business was to settle if the money was legal tender or not. The answer of public opinion, grounded on the principles of private property and the protection of acquired rights, ran the same in both cases: Prout quidque eontraetum est, ita et solvi debet; ut cum re eontraximus, re solvi debet, veluti cum mutuum dedimus, ut Tetro pecuniae tantundem solvi debeat."
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"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
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"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."
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"He will have true glory who despises it."
Glory
"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
Truth
"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."
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"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence."
Spirit
"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."
Law
"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."
Envy
"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
Desire
"A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself."
Society
"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
Life
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
Intelligence
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