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“The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him”
John Marshall quotes (American Founder constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the United States. 1755-1835)
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“The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
Raymond Chandler quotes (American Writer, author of detective fiction,1888-1959)
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“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)
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“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.”
Felix Frankfurter quotes (American Jurist, 1882-1965)
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“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained”
Niccolo Machiavelli quotes (Italian writer and statesman, Florentine patriot, author of 'The Prince', 1469-1527)
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“A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)
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“Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them”
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“A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution”

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“Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape”
Solon quotes (Athenian statesman and poet, 630-560bc)
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“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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