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- Nov 07, 2020
Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are in the country illegally, but local and state law enforcement can be helpful partners in that regard.
- American Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health care law's individual mandate forces nearly all individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law because it is the primary mechanism through which the law's changes are supported. Without the mandate, the law collapses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
- Applying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020