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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Aristotle

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Quentin Crisp

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.
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Bernard Joseph Saurin

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

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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Edward Gibbon

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

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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The more laws the less justice.
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Proverb

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
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Sir William Jones

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Charles De Montesquieu

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Charles De Montesquieu

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
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Max Stirner

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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Clarence Darrow

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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Charles Evans Hughes

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Charles De Montesquieu

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Miguel De Cervantes

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
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George Bernard Shaw

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