- Government
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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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
- Nov 07, 2020
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
- Archbishop
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020