Law Quotes
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Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.
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Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.
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Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.
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I am still an Irish rebel to the backbone and the spinal marrow, a rebel for the same reason that John Hampden and Algernon Sidney, George Washington and Charles Carrol of Carroltown, were rebels—because tyranny had supplanted the law.
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Zeroth law: You must play the game
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Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
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Current and former Assistant Attorneys General have a duty to follow all rules related to the practice of law in the state of Texas.
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The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
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I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.
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I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
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Much as he is opposed to law - breaking, he is not bigoted about it.
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
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There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.
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Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
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A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.
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German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.
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The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
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It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken the law. I would support - after we have developed a secure border - a mechanism for allowing those folks to work here in America... Everything that we should do should be based on good, sound policy and what's right for America.
