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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

—Henry Brougham

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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

—H. L. Mencken

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

—H. L. Mencken

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The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

—Glaser and Way

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What power has law where only money rules.

—Gaius Petronius

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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

—Felix Frankfurter

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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

—Cornelius Tacitus

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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)

—Cicero

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

—Cicero

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The people's good is the highest law.

—Cicero

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

—Cicero

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A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

—Chaim Weizmann

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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

—Aristotle

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Law is mind without reason.

—Aristotle

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