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Law Quotes
"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
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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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"When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves."
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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."
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"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
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"The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves."
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"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."
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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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"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
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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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"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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"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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"The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor."
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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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"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
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"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
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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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