"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."

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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

Steven Magee, British Author

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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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"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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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"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth."

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"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."

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"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."

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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."

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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

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"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."

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"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

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"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors."

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