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• The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of the statute of limitations under the criminal side. Because it occurred on an airplane and federal law doesn't have a statute of limitations I know off for that particular offense.

  Megyn Kelly

  Airplane, Law, Interesting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

  Milton Friedman

  Teenager, Book, Social Unrest

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• Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Order, Choices

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• I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Rights, Rome, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman

  Grover Cleveland

  Rights, Views, Class

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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• No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.

  William Borah

  Heart, Law, Brain

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• In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

  Margaret Spellings

  Assessment, Years, Understanding

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Equality, League, Giving

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• There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country different from others, and what's the justification for that? Well, you know, I had eight million things to say about that, but he put it in such a sharp, excruciating way that it was just very hard to handle it effectively.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Country, Eight, Different

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.

  James Comey

  Information, Way, Investigation

  James Comey's Statement on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Cost, Flaws, Fraud

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• The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Self, Evil

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• Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!

  Clint Eastwood

  Children, Twenties, United States

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• Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Law, Violence, Murder

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Alcohol, Political

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• The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

  Paul Martin

  Goal, Criminals, Sometimes

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• If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

  Benjamin Harrison

  Book, Taken, Together

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• The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published
  decision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simply
  in effect expressing a view that while I don't particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming.
  vote, or maybe there were other reasons. But
  my decision not to sign doesn't have to be followed by
  everybody from that point on

  George Deukmejian

  Views, Law, Decision

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• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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• The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Law, Confusion

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Stars, Guides, Duty

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• The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Onward And Upward, Political, Intellectual

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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