Law Quotes
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I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.
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Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.
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Homemaking is whatever you make of it. Every day brings satisfaction along with some work which may be frustrating, routine, and unchallenging. But it is the same in the law office, the dispensary, the laboratory, or the store. There is, however, no more important job than homemaking.
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We want to look at everything we can do that's right and proper under federal law, and with federal laws to see that the children of America are given a chance to grow as strong, constructive, healthy human beings. It's the best investment we can possibly make in America.
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For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
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Given Georgetown’s remarkable history, and that of President Healy, this struck me as an appropriate place to talk about the difficult relationship between law enforcement and the communities we are sworn to serve and protect.
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Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
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The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.
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I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.
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The law, notably tort law and the law of property based on the principle of exclusion, is historically prior to any proto-statal authority.
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As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good.
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True revolutionary doctrine teaches that the only law is rationalism and dynamic optimism.
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I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.
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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
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Could we even pretend the law still existed? Or was it something you made up now, as the occasion required?
