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"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
People
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
Mankind
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
People
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
Politics
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
Law
"Genius is sorrow's child."
Genius
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
Imagination
"A government of laws, and not of men."
Government
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
Nation
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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."
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"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."
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"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."
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"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."
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"I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice."
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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
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