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Law Quotes
"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them."
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"Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system."
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"By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract."
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"Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose."
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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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"Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends."
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"Changing the external conditions of your lives - earn more money, be in a better physical shape, have another partner or travel more - will not change how you feel. It never works because the emptiness is not around, is within. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge that little voice rising from your heart and begging you to return to love, to return to truth."
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"The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants."
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"There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council."
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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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"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."
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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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"I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses."
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"You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem."
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"Intelligent efforts are successful."
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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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"We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."
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"There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment."
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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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"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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"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 the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."
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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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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."
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"The laws of men are not infallible."
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"An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment "Thou shall not kill.But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22"23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life."
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"The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified."
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"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally."
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