Bainbridge Colby Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke -
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry -
Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
Jack Markell -
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J. M. Coetzee
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
Malin Akerman -
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
Samuel Chase -
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long -
The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
Vince Vaughn -
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins -
Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
Rahm Emanuel
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright -
As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
Carles Puigdemont -
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
Manny Pacquiao -
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith -
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
Frederic Bastiat -
The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.
Donna Brazile -
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
Oscar Wilde -
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis -
Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.
Dalai Lama -
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Bainbridge Colby