"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
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"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."
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"Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."
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"I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court."
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"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
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"I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law."
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"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
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"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
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"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
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"Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving."
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"It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great."
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"There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers."
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"We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver."
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"The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors."
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"The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh."
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"I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life."
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"It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system."
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"Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?"
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"Love is the law of life."
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"When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books."
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