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Legal Quotes by James Madison
- The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as…
- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
- Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been…
- During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride…
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- People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — Saint Augustine
- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
- It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
- We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living.… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant