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Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.
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Angus Deaton
British
Economist
Born:
Oct 19
,
1945
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,
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,
Role
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
Best
Legal
Law
Strictly
Way
Bad
Best Way
Get
Enforce
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
Man
Legal
Better
Innocent
Saving
Guilty
Risk
Condemn
Than
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Government
Nature
You
Injustice
Legal
Law
Say
Machine
Another
Break
Agent
Then
Requires
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 law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice
Respect
Legal
Reality
Law
Submit
Community
Unjust
Penalty
Willingly
Tells
Individual
Highest
Over
Him
Arouse
Accepts
Imprisonment
Order
Breaks
Who
Expressing
Conscience
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
Legal
Spider
Big
Web
Laws
Through
Pass
Caught
Get
Which
Little
Flies
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Government
Man
Rights
Legal
Dangerous
Monopoly
Threat
Physical
Physical Force
Potentially
Disarmed
Most
Force
Legally
Holds
Victims
Against
Use
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Legal
Laws
Small
Through
Catch
Like
May
Break
Which
Flies
Cobweb
Wasps
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
Wisdom
Legal
Law
Makes
Authority
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Justice
Legal
Unjust
Punishment
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
Me
Justice
Legal
Humanity
Lawyer
Ought
Tell
Tells
May
Reason
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