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"People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."	Mark Duffy
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."	Edward Gibbon
"The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."	Kahlil Gibran
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."	Learned Hand
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."	Thomas Jefferson
"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."	Howard Mumford Jones
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win."	Paul Jones
"Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money."	Deane Jordan
"This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying."	William Kunstler
"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
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."	Doris Lessing
"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
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"State problems should involve state solutions."	Ronald Reagan
"If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."	Otto von Bismarck
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