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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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"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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"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws."
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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man."
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"It shall be an offence for any man, either a husband or other person of the male sex, married or otherwise, being over the age of twelve years, to throw any item of clothing having been worn by the said person for whatever length of time, upon the floor of any bathroom or any room adjacent to and connected to a bathroom, without good cause."
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"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
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"It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have."
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"Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law."
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"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law."
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"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
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"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."
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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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"Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody."
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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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"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
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"We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence."
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"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."
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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
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"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."
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"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."
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"It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours."
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"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious."
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"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police."
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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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"Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny (royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...); who cannot show that they have performed their civic duties; who do not starve, and yet have no visible means of support; who have been refused certificates of citizenship by their Sections; who have been removed from public office by the Convention or its representatives; who belong to an aristocratic family, and have not given proof of constant and extraordinary revolutionary fervor; or who have emigrated."
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"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."
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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
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