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“I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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“A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where
mystery begins, justice ends?”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Vindication of Natural Society
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“The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.”
Bishop Gilbert Burnet Quotes Source: History of His Own Times
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“Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 515)
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“Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 359)
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“The law of heaven and earth is life for life.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Curse of Minerva (st. 15)
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“Arms and laws do not flourish together.”
Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar) Quotes Source: in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives", "Julius Caesar"
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“No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion.”
Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes Source: in a speech at Senate hearing on Woman's suffrage
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“Who to himself is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act II, sc. 1)
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“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.”
Clarence Darrow Quotes |
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“This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.”
Oliver Wendell Quotes |
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“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost Quotes |
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“Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.”
William H Mauldin Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.”
Mister Boffo Quotes |
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“A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.”
A Whitney Brown Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.”
Porterfield Quotes |
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“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.”
Putt's Law Quotes |
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“The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.”
Alex Levin Quotes |
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“For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.”
Eric Ambler Quotes |
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“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
Frank Zappa Quotes |
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“I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.”
Anon. Quotes |
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