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"'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."	Æschylus
"...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet."	Herman Hesse
"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."	Primo Levi
"A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."	Archibald Cox
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."	Robert Lee Frost
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."	Jean Kerr
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States."	Bertrand Russell
"An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life."	Henry Ward Beecher
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."	Albert Einstein
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."	Thomas Jefferson
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."	Confucius
"Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon."	Jerry Coleman
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money."	Deane Jordan
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