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- Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when we have not.
- John Lubbock
- For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact when they can, and the weak grant what they must.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- 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)
- 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)
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