"War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law."
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"Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?"
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"The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation."
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"Nine-tenths of human law is about possession."
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"Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer."
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"Labor is the law of happiness."
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"Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away."
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"It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones."
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"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney."
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"How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer."
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"Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way."
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"The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers."
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"Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society."
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"I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration."
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"One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever."
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"When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind."
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"Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance."
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"But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life."
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"I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States."
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"The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews."
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