Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
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“In sum, part I has shown that administrative law revives prerogative legislation, together with the prerogative of suspending and dispensing with law—thus… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
In most Western democracies, you do have the freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is not an entitlement to reach. You… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
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The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
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Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse. — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country. — Chad Wolf Copy Share Image
You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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