Law Quotes
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
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I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
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I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
