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"Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us."
Kary Mullis
"Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us."
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"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."
Thomas E. Mann
"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."
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"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."
Tim Robbins
"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."
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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."
Craig Benson
"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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"In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution."
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
"In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution."
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"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
J. William Fulbright
"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
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"No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law."
John Trumbull
"No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law."
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"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known."
Charles Evans Hughes
"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known."
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"By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract."
Chris Noth
"By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract."
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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."
Mark Roberts
"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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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
Charles de Secondat
"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
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"The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes."
Lindsey Graham
"The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes."
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"I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
Chief Joseph
"I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
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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."
Robert Stack
"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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"I am very pro law enforcement."
Robert Stack
"I am very pro law enforcement."
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"No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law."
Grover Cleveland
"No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law."
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"Either the law exists, or it does not."
Andre Norton
"Either the law exists, or it does not."
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"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
Adam Clayton
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
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"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law."
Earl Warren
"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law."
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"My parents wanted me to go to law school."
Sasha Alexander
"My parents wanted me to go to law school."
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"The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship."
Julius Wellhausen
"The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship."
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"It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have."
Blanche Lincoln
"It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have."
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"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that."
Clarence Thomas
"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that."
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"Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows."
Thomas Sydenham
"Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows."
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"I grew up before there were strict leash laws."
Beverly Cleary
"I grew up before there were strict leash laws."
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"There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects."
Billy Sunday
"There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects."
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"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute."
David Guterson
"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute."
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"I am ashamed the law is such an ass."
George Chapman
"I am ashamed the law is such an ass."
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"This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law."
Jack Kevorkian
"This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law."
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"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."
Wendell Phillips
"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."
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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
Jules Verne
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
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"Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system."
Adam Schiff
"Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system."
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"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
Isabel Paterson
"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
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"Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them."
Spencer Bachus
"Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them."
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"At some point, Moore's law will break down."
Seth Lloyd
"At some point, Moore's law will break down."
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"The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law."
Roy Moore
"The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law."
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"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."
Bill Mauldin
"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."
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"I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service."
Arthur Capper
"I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service."
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"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."
John Bright
"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."
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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
Jeremy Bentham
"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
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"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble."
Vittorio Alfieri
"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble."
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"Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party."
Hans Frank
"Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party."
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"I enjoyed practicing law."
George J. Mitchell
"I enjoyed practicing law."
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"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."
Thomas More
"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."
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"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant."
Martin Van Buren
"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant."
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"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."
Lemony Snicket
"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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"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
Floyd Abrams
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
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"The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in."
Thomas Keller
"The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in."
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"No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man."
Roy Moore
"No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man."
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"There can be no liberty without the law."
Cecil B. DeMille
"There can be no liberty without the law."
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