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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter
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Felix Frankfurter
American
Judge
Born:
Nov 15
,
1882
Died:
Feb 22
,
1965
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
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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
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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.
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
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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
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
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Cobweb
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
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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
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