"I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones."
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"The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]"
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"Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see."
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"Feare, the Bedle of the Law."
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"I'm a person who's trying to live within divine law, to the best and it's very hard because it's self-discipline, because the more you realise, the more you've got to get yourself straight, so it's hard, you know. I'm trying and there are a lot of people who are trying, even people who are not conscious that they are doing it, but they are really doing things for the good, or just to be happy or whatever."
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"Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends."
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"The Law is not the same at morning and at night."
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"We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men."
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"The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion."
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"I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise."
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"Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you."
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"Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part."
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"It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another."
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"There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation."
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"All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep."
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"Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life."
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"You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder..."
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"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness."
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"It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit."
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"I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit."
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