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- It better befits a man to laugh than to lament over it.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not supported by the people.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
- Robert Orben
- Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
- Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964)
- Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.
- Thomas Moriarty
- The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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