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Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle
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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. -Aristotle
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Law is mind without reason.

Aristotle
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -Martin Luther King Jr.
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The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.

Lao tzu
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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

William Shakespeare
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Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. -William Shakespeare
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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

Sir George Savile
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Sir George Savile
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. -James Madison
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There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Greta Garbo
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Law never is, but is always about to be.

Benjamin Cardozo
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. -Albert Einstein
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein
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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Cicero
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. -Cicero
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The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

Glaser and Way
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There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Derek Bok
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When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. -Al Gore
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We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.

James Bryce
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If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her "Sue" -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally a verb...

Dennis Wolfberg
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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. -Angelina Grimke
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What power has law where only money rules.

Gaius Petronius
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[Law is] an odd profession that presents its greatest scholarship in student-run publications.

Morton J. Horwitz
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. -John Paul Jones
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I used to want to be a Lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Max Walker
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Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. -Norman Mailer
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