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Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. (Tupper)[][]
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. (Terence)[][]
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. (Ambrose Bierce)[][]
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. (George Bernard Shaw)[][]
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. (Theodore Roosevelt)[][]
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Jeremy Bentham)[][]
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. (A. E. Housman)[][]
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. (William S. Gilbert)[][]
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (Benjamin Franklin)[][]
Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one. (Chinese Proverb)[][]
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. (Chinese Proverb)[][]
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