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Law Quotes
"Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by."
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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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"We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law."
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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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"The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed."
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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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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."
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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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"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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"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."
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"It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
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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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"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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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
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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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"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."
Law,
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"Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!"
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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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