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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln
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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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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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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. Edmund Burke
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. Plato
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. Will Rogers
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke
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We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries. Nikki Haley
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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. Sonia Sotomayor
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. W. E. B. Du Bois
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Advertising is legalized lying. H. G. Wells
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Taste cannot be controlled by law. Thomas Jefferson
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. Oliver North
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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. Andrew Johnson
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham
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Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas
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