Anthony Burgess Quotes
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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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.
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We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.
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I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway. ... I think it is maybe time - what do you think - for maybe a businessman. How about that? A stellar businessman.
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...with Indians there is an unhealthy love of the law...
