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“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
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.”
Greta Garbo
“The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.”
Robert Schmitt
“Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.”
Clarence Darrow
“No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice”
Bertrand Russell
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
C.S. Lewis
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
