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Law And Lawyers Quotes by Mark Twain
- There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
- Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
- Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
- We need a law that will permit a voter to sue a candidate for breach of promise
- There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them
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- To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. — Otto von Bismarck
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. — Edmund Burke
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- If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. — Julius Caesar
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- I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. — Fred Allen
- The more laws, the less justice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero