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"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."

"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."

"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."

"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."

"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."

"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?"

"We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court."
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"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."

"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."

"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."

"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
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