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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Samuel Johnson
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
Aristotle
“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
“The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.”
Robert Schmitt
“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”
Henry David Thoreau
“In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!”
Dan Castellaneta
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob”
