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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
Law Men Rich Rule Poor
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Me Women Law Mother Degree Girl Important Other Those Independent Constantly Something Most Unusual Because Up Times The Most Important Lady Your Growing Growing Up Things Two
Taste cannot be controlled by law. Thomas Jefferson
Legal Law Taste Controlled Cannot
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Walt Whitman
Wise Man Wise Man Liberty Law Every Consider On The Contrary Release Constraint Laws Sees Potent Shallow Contrary
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt
Law Tyranny Power Minds Unlimited Unlimited Power Those Apt Corrupt Know Lords Begins Ends Where Who
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. Albert Einstein
Government Respect Law Nothing Destructive Laws More Passing Than Cannot Which Land Enforced
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. Cecil B. DeMille
God Man Law Made Down Laws Never He Since Moses Were Commandments Handed Mount Improved Million
The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness. Charles Spurgeon
God Law Fear Victory Christ Judgment Final Our Both Through Thunder Roaring Terror Won Salvation Us Used Bring
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem. Hunter S. Thompson
Problem Law Own Something My Own Like Well Go Taste Just Happens Against Might Then
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. Hunter S. Thompson
Food Law Top Enter Food Chain Civilization Beyond Said Always Ends Sea Chain Right
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people. Hunter S. Thompson
People Law Made Somebody Gauge Else Worst Recognized Outlaw Allies Writer Outside Never Term Were Heard Up Trying Just Who Miller
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Law Law And Order Merely Order Incidental
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. James Baldwin
Man Law Hatred Destroy Hated Immutable Could Never Failed Which Much Who
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham
Ignorance Legal Law Punished Only Lawyers Persons Whom
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. Jim Elliot
God Soul Law Result Pronounce Laws More Perfect Takes Abundant Most Condemn Condemns Than Forgives Sentence Away
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. Julian Assange
Good Intelligence Law Behavior Secret Rule Rule Of Law Because Intelligence Agencies Often Agencies Good Behavior Keep Things Violate
Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. Lamar S. Smith
Law Political Own Abuse Judges Judicial Occurs Political Views Substitute Views
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. Maximilien Robespierre
Man Rights Law Unjust Tyrannical Any Essentially Which Inalienable Violates
Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views. Neil Gorsuch
Business Law Light Political Wish Own Interpretation Tools Rather Judges Traditional Than Political Views Declaring Might Should Views Using
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. Noam Chomsky
Good History You Memories Law Remember Innocent Innocence Once Guilty Presumption Some No Point Point Concept Until Court Proven Exist Up Did May Used Deep Even Now Bringing
Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Work Welcome Law Result Alien Exploitation Tremendously Our Willing Would Would-Be Take Protected Wage Subjected Undocumented Person Shores Unfortunately Who
Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas
Good Legal Law Sense Makes Often Common Common Sense
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. B. R. Ambedkar
Freedom You Liberty Law Achieve Long Whatever Provided Avail Social
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems. Ben Carson
Win Law School Problems Thinking Solve Law School About Lawyers Learn Got How Start
If you love the rule of law, you must love it in all of its applications. You cannot only love it when it provides the verdict you seek; you must love it when the verdict goes against you as well. Cheryl Mills
Love You Law Rule Rule Of Law Must Seek Only Only Love Well Verdict Provides Goes Cannot Against Applications
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow
Business Law Seriously Everything Punish Pretend Would Does Dishonest Interfere
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