- Legal
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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.
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- Agnostic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law is agnostic about truth.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020