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| A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. (H. L. Mencken) |
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| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost) |
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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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| The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. (Anatole France The Red Lily 1894 chapter 7) |
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| We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. (Sir Winston Churchill speech in the House of Commons July 14 1940) |
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| I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln) |
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| When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. (Benjamin Disraeli) |
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The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be. (Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu) |
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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 from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers) |
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| Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. (Aristotle Politics) |
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| Law is order, and good law is good order. (Aristotle Politics) |
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| Law stands mute in the midst of arms. (Cicero Pro Milone) |
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| The people's good is the highest law. (Cicero De Legibus) |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail April 16 1963) |
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| Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. (Barbara Hall) |
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| Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. (J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord Of the Rings Book Four Chapter One) |
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| Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. (Otto von Bismarck) |
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| The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. (Cicero) |
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| Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. (Agesilaus the Second) |
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| The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. (Roscoe Pound) |
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| It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. (Cornelius Tacitus) |
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| Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. (Pope Pius XI) |
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