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CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

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'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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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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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

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All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

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The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

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International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

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Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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