"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil."
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"I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong."
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"And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."
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"As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on."
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"Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience."
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"The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air."
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"Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget."
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"Unjust laws aren't laws at all."
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"The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it."
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"People say law but they mean wealth."
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"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney."
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"As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles."
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"It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous."
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"Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain."
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"Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws."
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"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course."
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"I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!"
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"the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience."
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"I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image."
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"All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law."
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