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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."

"The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away."

"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."

"The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due."
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"I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service."

"The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor."
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"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."


"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."


"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."


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


"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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