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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
"I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality."
"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"
"By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract."
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
"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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"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
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