"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."

Law, Prohibition, Freedom, Writing

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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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"We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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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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"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angolan Statesman

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

Janet Reno, American Public Servant

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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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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."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system."

Adam Schiff, American Politician

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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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"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"Action is character."

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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

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