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

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Law, Modesty, Statesman

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Risk, Hope, Struggle

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Laws, Universe, Unworthy

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

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Law, Obedience

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

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Law, Property, Nature, Obvious, Reality

"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

Law, Order, Justice, Authority

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

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Law, Flies, Laws

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

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Law, Humor, Justice, Truth, Surprise

"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

Law, Freedom, Equality, Justice

"One with the law is a majority."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

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"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

Duty

"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more."

Inspirational

"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."

Eye

"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."

Justice

"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."

Privilege

"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."

Expression

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"One with the law is a majority."

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"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more."

"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."

"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."

"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."

"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

"I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life."

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