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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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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

by Thomas B. Macaulay Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law is above the law, you know.

The law is above the law, you know.

by Dorothy Salisbury Davis Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law's made to take care o' raskills.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

by George Eliot Found in: Law Quotes,
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

by Roscoe Pound Found in: Law Quotes,
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

by Frank Zappa Found in: Law Quotes,
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Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.

Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.

by Charles John Darling Found in: Law Quotes,
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…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of read more

…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.

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Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of read more

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Law Quotes,
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