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• "Laywers, I suppose, were children once."
  By: Charles Lamb
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• "The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it."
  By: Glaser and Way
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• "The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."
  By: John Selden
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• "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason."
  By: Sir John Powell
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• "The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
  By: Roscoe Pound
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• "Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
  By: Plato
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• "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
  By: H. L. Mencken
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• "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law."
  By: Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex
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• "The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be."
  By: Lao-tzu
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• "Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings."
  By: Felix Frankfurter
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• "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law ... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."
  By: Henry Brougham
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• "Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people."
  By: William Blackstone
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• "Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."
  By: Otto von Bismarck
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• "What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long."
  By: Nicolas Sarkozy
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