"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."

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"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours."

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"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."

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"I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night."

Christopher Darden, American Lawyer

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"You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

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"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

Dan Castellaneta, American Actor

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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."

Isabel Paterson, Canadian Journalist

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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."

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"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."

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"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."

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"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

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"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

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"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."

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"A fool and his words are soon parted."

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"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."

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"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."

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"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."

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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."

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