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"The law is a horrible business."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented."	John Calvin
"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
"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
"Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."	Kahlil Gibran
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."	Henry Alfred Kissinger
"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
"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
"Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life."	Henry Ward Beecher
"The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay."	Ronald Reagan
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