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Law Quotes
"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."
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"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."
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"While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities."
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"Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think."
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"The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed."
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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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"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."
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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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"You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem."
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"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination."
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"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly."
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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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"Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up."
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"And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit."
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"Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends."
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"We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."
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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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"There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment."
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"Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds."
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"I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it."
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"I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side."
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
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