"Law never is, but is always about to be."

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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

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"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

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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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"I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice."

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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

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"Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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