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"283 Law Quotes

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

About Acting By The Time Culture
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Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
Abstract Based Dangerous Laws
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I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

About Action Afford Against
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

American Contemporary Expedience Justice
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abuse Arbitrary Clinical Distinctions
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountable Actions American Broken
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Freedom Hands Law Loser
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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Cannot Chaos Civilization Creates
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Court Did Go Had
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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Apparent Arizona Capital Constitutional
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Conceal Hold Incumbent Material
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I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Constitution Drafting Look U.S.Constitution
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Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Avoid Candidate Commenting Judges
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There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Being Constitution His Last
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Between Get I Think Influence
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Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

Constitution Could Crucial Expressions
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Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.
Court Eight Good Know
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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

Constitution Force Oldest Out
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It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Big Court Hard Supreme
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

Books Death Death Penalty Most
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In the case of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, I have seen him take the tortuous path of using the judicial process. He persevered, and in the end, the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, says he is not guilty as charged.

Case Take Path Process
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Chief Direction Had Influence
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Both Cannot Justice Must
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The Federal Executive under my watch will not seek to encroach on the duties and functions of the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.

Watch Duties Arms Under
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

Carefully Cause Effect Law
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Good morals lead to good laws.
Good Laws Lead Morals
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Abolish Beings Capable Created
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Injustice Property Where There
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Fun Miss Obey Rules
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Anybody Anyone Driving Ever
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
Always Customer Listen Me
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Simple Expediency Wearing White dress
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Charge Could Find Him
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Any Attention Bound Care
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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

Constitution Constitutional Deal Democracy
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

It Ain't No Sin
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I simply refuse to play by the rules.

Play Refuse Rules Simply
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Law Rule Recall Show
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Could Enact End Ending
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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

After Chaos Enemies Enough
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Courtroom Evidence Hear Jail
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.

Trial Law Crime Process
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In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Truly Equal Laws Fired
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