"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."

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"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."

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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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"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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"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

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"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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"Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad."

Wayne Coyne, American Musician

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"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."

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"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."

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"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."

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"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

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"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever."

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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week."

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"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly."

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"You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?"

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"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us."

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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

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