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There Are Not Enough Jails, Not Enough Policemen, Not Even Enough Courts Too Enforce A Law Not Supported By The People.

Fragile As Reason Is And Limited As Law Is As The Institutionalised Medium Of Reason, That’s All We Have Between Us And The Tyranny Of Mere Will And The Cruelty Of Unbridled, Undisciplined Feelings.

- Felix Frankfurter

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The People’s Good Is The Highest Law.

- Cicero

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The Law Is Not So Much Carved In Stone As It Is Written In Water, Flowing In And Out With The Tide.

- Jeff Melvoin

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Even When Laws Have Been Written Down, They Ought Not Always To Remain Unaltered.

- Aristotle

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Let Me Not Be Understood As Saying That There Are No Bad Laws, Nor That Grievances May Not Arise For The Redress Of Which No Legal Provisions Have Been Made. I Mean To Say No Such Thing. But I Do Mean To Say That Although Bad Laws, If They Exist, Should Be Repealed As Soon As Possible, Still, While They Continue In Force, For The Sake Of Example They Should Be Religiously Observed.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Good Laws Lead To The Making Of Better Ones; Bad Ones Bring About Worse.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The Trouble With Fighting For Human Freedom Is That One Spends Most Of One’s Time Defending Scoundrels. For It Is Against Scoundrels That Oppressive Laws Are First Aimed, And Oppression Must Be Stopped At The Beginning If It Is To Be Stopped At All.

- H. L. Mencken

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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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It Was The Boast Of Augustus That He Found Rome Of Brick And Left It Of Marble. But How Much Nobler Will Be The Sovereign’s Boast When He Shall Have It To Say That He Found Law… A Sealed Book And Left It A Living Letter; Found It The Patrimony Of The Rich And Left It The Inheritance Of The Poor; Found It The Two-Edged Sword Of Craft And Oppression And Left It The Staff Of Honesty And The Shield Of Innocence.

- Henry Brougham

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The Strictest Law Often Causes The Most Serious Wrong.

- Cicero

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Law Is Order In Liberty, And Without Order Liberty Is Social Chaos.

- Archbishop Ireland

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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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What Power Has Law Where Only Money Rules.

- Gaius Petronius

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A Judge Is A Law Student Who Marks His Own Examination Papers.

- H. L. Mencken

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Good Laws Have Their Origins In Bad Morals.

- Ambrosius Macrobius

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Law Stands Mute In The Midst Of Arms.

- Cicero

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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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The More Laws And Order Are Made Prominent,
The More Thieves And Robbers There Will Be.

- Lao-tzu

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Law Is The Embodiment Of The Moral Sentiment Of The People.

- William Blackstone

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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

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Laws Do Not Persuade Just Because They Threaten.

- Seneca

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Laws Are Partly Formed For The Sake Of Good Men, In Order To Instruct Them How They May Live On Friendly Terms With One Another, And Partly For The Sake Of Those Who Refuse To Be Instructed, Whose Spirit Cannot Be Subdued, Or Softened, Or Hindered From Plunging Into Evil.

- Plato

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Ignorance Of The Law Excuses No Man: Not That All Men Know The Law, But Because ‘Tis An Excuse Every Man Will Plead, And No Man Can Tell How To Refute Him.

- John Selden

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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 Law That Will Work Is Merely The Summing Up In Legislative Form Of The Moral Judgement That The Community Has Already Reached.

- Woodrow Wilson

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The Law Hath Not Been Dead, Though It Hath Slept.

- William Shakespeare

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The Law Must Be Stable, But It Must Not Stand Still.

- Roscoe Pound

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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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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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It Is The Spirit And Not The Form Of Law That Keeps Justice Alive.

- Earl Warren

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Law Is Experience Developed By Reason And Applied Continually To Further Experience.

- Roscoe Pound

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A Jury Consists Of Twelve Persons Chosen To Decide Who Has The Better Lawyer.

- Robert Frost

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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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