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"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."	Edward Irving Koch
"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
"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
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."	Doris Lessing
"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."	Primo Levi
"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals."	Henry Louis Mencken
"Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law."	Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger
"Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."	John Morley
"Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey."	Nicholson
"Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for us today."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Laws were made to be broken."	Christopher North
"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 But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."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
"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
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Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Alfred Kissinger	Henry C. Blinn
Henry Grube	Henry Louis Mencken	Herman Hesse
Hermes	Howard Mumford Jones	Hubert H. Humphrey
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Jean Kerr	Jerry Coleman	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark Duffy	Nadia Boulanger
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