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| The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer |
| Will Rogers |
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| The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. |
| Ayn Rand |
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| The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries |
| Clarence Darrow |
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| The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed |
| Ayn Rand |
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| The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. |
| William Osler |
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| There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press |
| Mark Twain |
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| There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish. |
| Alfred Adler |
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| There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them |
| Mark Twain |
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| To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. |
| Otto von Bismarck |
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| Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. |
| Jean Giraudoux |
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| What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. |
| Ovid |
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| Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. |
| Frank Herbert |
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