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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

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This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.

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A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

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Only force rules. Force is the first law

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Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

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We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.

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Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.

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The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

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Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

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For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

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