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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."
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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"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."
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"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
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"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."
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"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
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"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."
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"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."
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"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
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"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
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"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."
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
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"The law works in mysterious ways."
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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?"
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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
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"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
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"I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it."
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"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."
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"Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents."
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"We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it."
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"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."
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"I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general."
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"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
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