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• The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

  Max Stirner

  Government, Libertarian Party, Political

  "The Great Quotations". Book by George Seldes, p. 664, 1960.

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• As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Three, Newton

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Men, People

  The Federalist no. 62 (1788).

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• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

  Charles Macklin

  Science, Justice, Pockets

  Charles Macklin (1825). “Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825”, p.25

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• In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

  Anatole France

  Peace, Anger, Sleep

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Forgiveness, Government, Gentle

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1756

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• Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Teacher, Mean, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

  Confucius

  Men, Dominance, Should

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• If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, People, Would Be

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.255

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• It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Nations, Observance

  Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  Lisa See

  Mother, Suicide, Children

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• If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Watches, Sausage, Made

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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Reality, Liberty

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Patriotic, Political

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

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• The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

  John Locke

  Freedom, Ends, States

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.234

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• Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

  Hart Pomerantz

  Education, School, Two

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• The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Player, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• Law is a bottomless pit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Pits, Lawyer

  'The History of John Bull' (1712) ch. 24

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• Where there's no law, there's no bread.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bread

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Events, Depends

  "The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill".

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• A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Justice, Judging

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• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Perspective, Style, Progress

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

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• To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Libertarian, Contempt

  Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, on May 11, 1860. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker". Book edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith, 2007.

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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