Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
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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 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.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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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.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
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I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
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There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
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The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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Law never is, but is always about to be.
