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• "Come, agree, the law's costly."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty."
  By: Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, On Blackstone
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• "And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."
  By: William Wordsworth, Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 53)
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• "And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws."
  By: George Wither (Whyther or Withers), Contented Man's Morrice
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• "The glorious uncertainty of law."
  By: Thomas Wilbraham, a toast at a dinner of judges and counsel at Serjeants' Inn Hall
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• "The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it."
  By: Daniel Webster, a toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner
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• "Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
  By: George Washington
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• "In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics."
  By: Earl Warren, in the "New York Times"
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• "For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex."
  By: Gore Vidal
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• "We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them."
  By: Benjamin R. Tucker
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• "No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law."
  By: John Trumbull (1), McFingal (canto III, l. 489)
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• "The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. [Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (IV, V, 48)
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• "What the law insists upon, let it have of your own free will. [Lat., Quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (III, 4, 44)
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• "A man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot."
  By: Jeremy Taylor vol. VIII, p. 145
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