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Letter "L" » Law and lawyers
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«We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them»
Author: Allen Tucker
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
criminals, criminal law, enact, enacted, enacting, manufacture, punish
«We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same»
Author: James Bryce
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
American Constitution
«We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Poets
| Keywords:
freely, interpreted, interprets, lawyer, law school, schools
«To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
retain, sausages
«Useless laws weaken necessary laws»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
weaken
«Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
languished, languishes, languishing, loser
«Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
commit, injustice, obscurest, Pay Less, penalties, penalty
«We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Be Free, bondage, in bondage, The Law
«What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
allowed, denied, disagreeable, intense
«When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.»
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