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| Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. |
| Mark Twain |
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| Laws do not persuade because they threaten |
| Seneca |
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| Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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| Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. |
| Horace |
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| Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. |
| Plato |
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| No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell |
| Robert Burton |
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| The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. |
| Quentin Crisp |
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| The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread |
| Anatole France |
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