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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."
"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."
"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."
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"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
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