Law Quotes
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Garry Kasparov
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The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.
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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 our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.
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I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
