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"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the 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."

"Mankind needs new law to embrace new science."

"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."

"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."

"The laws of men are not infallible."

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

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

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

"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
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"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."

"Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law."

"Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
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