Law Quotes
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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
Elihu Root
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If a company allows itself -- in its filtering capability -- to filter terms such as 'democracy' and 'religious freedom,' they will be in violation of U.S. law.
Chris Smith
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Fourth, this supreme law, which is celestial and living harmony, does not so much as demand that the special ideas shall surrender their peculiar arbitrariness and caprice entirely; for that would be self-destructive. It only requires that they influence and be influenced by one another.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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I am descended from Irish immigrants. A century ago, the Irish knew well how American society-and law enforcement-viewed them: as drunks, ruffians, and criminals. Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.'
James Comey
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
Jeb Bush
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Nature has no Laws — only habits.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
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It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.
Edward Boyden
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Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.
Joe Manchin
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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott
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As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.
David Brin
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The fate of the suicide is horrible in general. He has cut himself off from his body by using mechanical means that affect the body, but cannot touch the real man. He then is projected into the astral world, for he has to live somewhere. There the remorseless law, which acts really for his good, compels him to wait until he can properly die. Naturally he must wait, half dead, the months or years which, in the order of nature, would have rolled over him before body and soul and spirit could rightly separate. He becomes a shade....
William Quan Judge
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The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.
Lysander Spooner
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The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.
John Barrasso
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These cartoons were not in violation of Danish law but have irrefutably offended many Muslims, and for that we apologize.
Carsten Juste
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The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Jeremy Rifkin
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
Seneca the Younger
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Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
Uzodinma Iweala
