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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it."	I Ching
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."	Noam Chomsky
"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"	(William) Ramsey Clark
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"	Dick Clark
"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns."	John Maurice Clark
"Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon."	Jerry Coleman
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."	Confucius
"A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."	Archibald Cox
"I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."	Idi Amin Dada
"The law is a horrible business."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"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
"Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out."	James Dent
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."	Laertius Diogenes
"Common sense often makes good law."	William Orville Douglas
"Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed."	Lowell Duckett
"People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."	Mark Duffy
"The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate."	William James "Will" Durant
"To live outside the law you must be honest."	Bob Dylan
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John Quincy Adams	John W. Hanley	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
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Learned Hand	Lowell Duckett	Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Nicholson	Noam Chomsky	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Otto von Bismarck	Paul Jones	Primo Levi
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Jordan	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Burns	Robert Lee Frost	Ronald Reagan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Francis Bacon	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Henry Huxley	Thomas à Kempis	Truman Capote
William Shakespeare	William James "Will" Durant	William Kunstler
William Orville Douglas	Æschylus	(William) Ramsey Clark