"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

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"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections."

Ralph Neas, American Activist

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."

Vincent Bugliosi, American Author

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"A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices."

Vincent Bugliosi, American Author

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"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

Scott Turow, American Novelist

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"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."

Bill Frist, American Politician

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"I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide."

Elena Kagan, American Judge

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"In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law."

Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant

Legal, Islam, Doctrine, Law

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

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"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

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"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."

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"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

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"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."

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"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."

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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."

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"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

"We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."

"A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices."

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."

"In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law."

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."

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"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."

"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."

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"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."

"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."

"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."

"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."