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Law Quotes
"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
48
"Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant."
47
"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."
39
"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."
37
"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."
35
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
34
"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."
32
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
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26
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
25
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
25
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
23
"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."
19
"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."
17
"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."
17
"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."
15
"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
15
"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."
15
"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."
14
"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."
13
"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
13
"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."
13
"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
13
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
13
"After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system."
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