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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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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
37
"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
35
"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."
31
"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."
30
"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."
27
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
26
"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."
22
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
18
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
14
"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."
14
"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
11
"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."
11
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
11
"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
10
"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning."
7
"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
7
"The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely."
7
"Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws."
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