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Law Quotes
"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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"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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"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."
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"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."
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"Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party."
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"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
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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 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 moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
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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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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
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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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"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
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"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man."
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"As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected."
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"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
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"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."
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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-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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"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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"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
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"Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up."
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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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"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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"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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