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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

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The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

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One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

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Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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The highest virtue is always against the law.

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