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Law Quotes
"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."
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"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."
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"There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it."
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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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"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
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"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
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"Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up."
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"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
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"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."
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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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"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
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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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"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."
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"Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"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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"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."
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"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."
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"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."
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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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"Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together."
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"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."
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"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."
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"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation."
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