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«Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.»
Author: Archibald Cox
| About:
Achievement,
Law and lawyers,
Society
| Keywords:
centuries, disputes, enable, force of law, maximum, minimum, persistently, resolution
«To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
affected, death penalty, defendant, defendants, deprive, entitled, exclude, impartial, juror, jurors, jury, penalty, prospect, slightest
«This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
court, courted, courting, Court of, Court of Justice, court of law, Law and Justice, This is a, young man
«The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
cases, juries, lawyers, trial, trial lawyer
«The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Children,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
arms race, inheritance, proclaimed, The United Nations, United Nations
«The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Change,
Ideas,
Law and lawyers,
Security
| Keywords:
adapting, and elsewhere, current, elsewhere, misguide, misguided, outlived, static, The Search, usefulness
«The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Injustice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
severest, strictest
«The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed»
«The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
clients, lawyers, lined, obstinacy, robed, Robes, The Client
«Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Government,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
license, too little
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