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I say, break the law.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau

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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Property
Henry David Thoreau

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
Freedom
Henry David Thoreau

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau

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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Rebellion
Leon Trotsky

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them
Law and Lawyers
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

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Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
Conformity
Thomas Tusser

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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Family
Mark Twain

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Superstition
Mark Twain

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Law and Lawyers
Mark Twain

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
Speakers and Speaking
Source Unknown

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Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.
Mother-in-Laws
Source Unknown

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.
Leaders and Leadership
Source Unknown

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Nature
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Law and Lawyers
Voltaire

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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Story and Story-Telling
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Uncategorised
Daniel Webster

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Law and Lawyers
Orson Welles

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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Laughter
Mae West

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
Law and Lawyers
Earl Wilson

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Law and Lawyers
Brigham Young

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun