Hugo Black Quotes
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
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We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...
Lucy Stone
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Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.
Anu Garg
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I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?
Al Gore
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That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon Sidney
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We must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish. Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions - divisions which have all lasted too long. Its purpose is national, not regional.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I propose to the Chancellor that... before this legislature is recessed, we make some necessary changes to the weapons law, such as raising the age of ownership for large-caliber weapons from 18 to 21.
Edmund Stoiber
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There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.
Al Feldstein
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
Oscar Taveras
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In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.
Immanuel Kant
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The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
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