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Law Quotes
"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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"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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"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
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"The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process."
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"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."
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"The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners."
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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 want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
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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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"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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"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."
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"It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours."
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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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"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police."
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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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"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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"Nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents."
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"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."
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"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious."
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"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law."
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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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"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
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"The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely."
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"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."
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"Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality."
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