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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections

Chinese Proverb

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections

Chinese Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

Chinese Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

Chinese Proverb

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

Charles A. Lindbergh

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

The only books that separate ground water and surface water are our law books.

Duane Smith

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

William Barclay

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

David Gerrold

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

R. E. Hellmund

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Frederic Bastiat

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

L. Estrange

The law of life is the law of belief.

Joseph Murphy

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

John Stuart Blackie

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.

Henry Brougham

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln 1809

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Voltaire

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

Remy de Gourmont

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

Remy de Gourmont

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

Remy de Gourmont

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Unknown

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Angelina Jolie

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