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Law Quotes
"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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"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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"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
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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."
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"A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law."
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"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."
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"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
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"The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience."
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"The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law."
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"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."
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"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."
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"Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws."
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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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"The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed."
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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
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"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
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"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
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"Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean."
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"Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want."
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"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
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"But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States."
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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
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"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
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"The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves."
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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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