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.
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The law: It has honored us; may we honor it
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
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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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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end
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The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion
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Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her Sue -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally a verb..
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When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was the longest step forward in the history of law
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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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As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
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The law is above the law, you know
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I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
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You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled: ) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers
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