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Law Quotes
"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
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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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"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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"The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes."
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"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules."
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"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."
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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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"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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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
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"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws."
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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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"The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters."
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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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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it."
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"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."
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"Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on theroad an hour."
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"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."
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"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
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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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"Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by."
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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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"No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor."
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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
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"Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half - good to rebel against."
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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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