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" Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. "

Saint Augustine

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" I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. "

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" By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. "

Saint Augustine

" Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. "

" Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. "

" I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? "

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" Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. "

" The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society. "

Murray Rothbard

" People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. "

Norman Ralph Augustine

" Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything. "

Andrew Breitbart

" National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records. "

Matthew Desmond

" We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. "

Saint Augustine

" As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. "

" Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. "

" Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. "

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" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "

Coretta Scott King

" I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. "

" When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court. "

Claire McCaskill

" Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past. "

" I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons. "

" Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it. "

" I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them. "

" Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. "

" Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. "

Saint Augustine

" As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize. "

" Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. "

" Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country. "