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"In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

"The laws of men are not infallible."

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

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

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

"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."

"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."

"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."

"The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion."
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"The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be."


"The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county."


"I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on."


"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."


"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys."


"There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them."


"I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way."


"It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people."


"Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit."
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