"I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?"
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"On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty."
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"Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."
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"Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."
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"Argument weak; speak loudly!"
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"All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him."
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"To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve."
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"All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses."
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"The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake."
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"To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere."
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"Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts."
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"I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school."
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"To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law."
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"Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led."
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"The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!"
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"He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that."
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"Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN."
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"Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?"
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"It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion."
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"The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."
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