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In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House -
In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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Judge - A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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