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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The laws of men are not infallible."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

Law, Justice, Fallibility, Power

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Law, War, Justice, Commanders

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Chance, Justice, Decision

"The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Law, Perception, Observation, Justice

"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Law, Speech, Consequence, Authority

"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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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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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."

Ability

"Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to."

Money

"We've become a plastic society."

Society

"The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs."

Change

"What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays."

God

"I bought a railroad during this period of time."

Time

"Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected."

Nothing

"You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money."

Money

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."

Employment

"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota."

Work