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Law Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
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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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"Nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents."
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"You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem."
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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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"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law."
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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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"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 Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
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"Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?"
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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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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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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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"The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due."
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"For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye."
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"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
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"Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases."
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