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“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
Julius Caesar
“The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.”
Will Rogers
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men”
George Bernard Shaw
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
C.S. Lewis
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law”
Sophocles
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost
“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive”
Earl Warren
