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Law Quotes
"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 Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself."
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"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
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"The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves."
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"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."
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"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."
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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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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
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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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"After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system."
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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."
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"In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution."
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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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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful."
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"We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law."
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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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"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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"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
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"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
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"The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed."
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"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."
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"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."
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