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  • Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Law Quotes , Justice Quotes
  • I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Law Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Law Quotes , Knowing Quotes