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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
"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."
"Mankind needs new law to embrace new science."
"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."
Explore more quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
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