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Law Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may…
- A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its…
- There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
- It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
- For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome…
- The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere…
- It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men
- There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great
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- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson