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" Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. "

Michel de Montaigne

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" In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal. "

" Justice delayed is justice denied. "

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" I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. "

" To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. "

" The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter. "

" I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. "

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

" The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich. "

" In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions. "

" Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. "

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" A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. "

" I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, and the only justice to lead the N.F.L. in rushing. He was one of the smartest and most courageous men I've ever known. "

" People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. "

" Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. "

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" Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. "

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" In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. "

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" 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. "

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" By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom. "

" If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing. "