"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend……" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
• As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good… — Kelly Ayotte
• I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be,… — F. Lee Bailey
• They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
• In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real… — James Belushi
• We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion… — Alfred Adler
• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have… — Barbara Boxer
• To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may… — Louis D. Brandeis
• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.… — Bill Bryson
• To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules… — Nicolas Cage
• It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which… — Dick Cheney
• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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