Law Quotes
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On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
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The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
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That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!
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It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
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Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
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Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
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Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.
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Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
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I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.
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If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.
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Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
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In a system of precedent, the new majority bears the weight of explaining why the constitutional vision of their predecessors was flawed and of making the case as to why theirs better captures the meaning of our fundamental law.
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I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
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For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.
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No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
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I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.
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I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.
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If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
