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

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

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Thomas Moore

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
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Edward F. Halifax

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Charles Dickens

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
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Addison Mizner

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
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Cecil B. De Mille

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

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
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Thomas Jefferson

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
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Gerald F. Lieberman

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Charles Caleb Colton

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.
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Saying

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Oliver Goldsmith

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Law is a bottomless pit.
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John Arbuthnot

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Law, without force, is impotent.
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Blaise Pascal

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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
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Suzanne Lafollette

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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
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Otto Von Bismarck

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
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Azarias

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
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Ward Becker

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
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Louis XIV

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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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Johnson

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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Benjamin Franklin

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