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    One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
    where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."

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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Law Quotes,
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No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when read more

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

by Theodore Roosevelt Found in: Law Quotes,
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The United States was founded
by the violent overthrow
of a violently founded throne.

The United States was founded
by the violent overthrow
of a violently founded throne.

by O Anna Niemus Found in: Law Quotes,
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.

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Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg read more

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

by Anatole France Found in: Law Quotes,
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It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

by Carry Nation Found in: Law Quotes,
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If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, read more

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

by Felix Frankfurter Found in: Law Quotes,
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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others read more

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

by Herman Hesse Found in: Law Quotes,
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