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Law Quotes
"Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant."
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"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
60
"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
59
"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
49
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
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48
"And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons."
46
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
43
"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."
41
"In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law."
40
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
35
"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."
33
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
33
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
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"The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?"
24
"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."
24
"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
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"The law works in mysterious ways."
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"I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment."
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"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
22
"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
22
"But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders."
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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
21
"When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves."
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"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."
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