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"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"	(William) Ramsey Clark
"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."	Abraham Lincoln
"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."	Albert Einstein
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."	Albert Einstein
"Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."	Anatole France
"A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."	Archibald Cox
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Aristotle
"'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."	Æschylus
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."	Benjamin Disraeli
"What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices."	Bertrand Russell
"Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States."	Bertrand Russell
"To live outside the law you must be honest."	Bob Dylan
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."	Charles Robert Darwin
"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe."	Christine Lane
"Laws were made to be broken."	Christopher North
"The law is a horrible business."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."	Confucius
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings."	Dave Barry
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