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Law Quotes by Felix Frankfurter
- All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which…
- Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of…
- Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary…
- If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is…
- For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all…
- I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
- In law also the emphasis makes the song.
- The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
- It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to…
- If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in…
- To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
- Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson