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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘legal’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.” -George Soros
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“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.” -Herbert Croly
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“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they’re going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.” -Chester Brown
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“Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don’t pay their taxes.” -Georgios A. Papandreou
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“I’m a hardcore libertarian – I want everything legal – but I also believe that you have the right to free association.” -Penn Jillette
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“Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.” -Andrew Johnson
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“Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.” -Preston Manning
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“And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.” -Dennis Banks
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“You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at.” -Robert Caro
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“What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.” -Robert Mueller
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“In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company’s machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company’s server, the police can get it without showing you anything.”…
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“I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It’s impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.” -Tony Campolo
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“I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can’t afford to take legal action against them.” -Elton John
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“Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.” -Kevin Mitnick
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“As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.” -Julian Bond
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“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.” -Gus Van Sant
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“Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.” -James Otis
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“And understandably so, that when you’re in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.” -Monica Lewinsky
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“All of the legal defense funds out there, they’re looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don’t make law, I know. I know.” -Sonia Sotomayor
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“Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.” -Tom Hanks
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“I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary ‘Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,’ which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.” -Harvey Weinstein
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“Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.” -John Sununu
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“You can’t solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.” -Theresa May
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“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism?” -Frederic Bastiat
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“When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.” -Ron Wyden
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“I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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“But my humble opinion is, I’m not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs – though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.” -Ted Demme
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“Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.” -Ted Nugent
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“Men’s indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.” -Thucydides
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“We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.” -Marco Rubio
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“I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.” -James Joyce
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“However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.” -Hassan Nasrallah
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“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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“Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn’t be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it’s not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.” -Evander Holyfield
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“Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.” -Franklin P. Jones
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“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.” -Sienna Miller
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“Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.” -Rahm Emanuel
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“We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.” -Rick Warren
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“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.” -Neil Gaiman
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“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.” -Lord Halifax
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“From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.” -John Harington
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“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” -Ayn Rand
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“Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.” -Michael Jordan
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“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.” -Ellen Key
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“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.” -Hillary Clinton
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“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.” -Andrew Jackson
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“Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.” -Colin Powell
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“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.” -James Patrick Murray
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“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.” -Sidney Poitier
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“After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.” -George W. Bush
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“The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.” -Henry Miller
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.” -Joseph Addison
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“Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.” -Robert Byrd
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“As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation’s economy and culture.” -Bob Filner
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“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.” -Romeo LeBlanc
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“The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they’re going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.” -Jon Stewart
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“One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.” -Anita Hill
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“Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.” -Don Henley
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“Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.” -Tammy Bruce
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“To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.” -Felix Frankfurter
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“I wouldn’t pretend to tell you we don’t pay our lawyers well.” -Jay Alan Sekulow
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“I’m afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I’m glad I am not any of these.” -Tom Glazer
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“A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.” -Sol Wachtler
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“To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.” -Potter Stewart
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“As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.” -Bill Williams
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“Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.” -Charles W. Pickering
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“I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.” -Johnnie Cochran
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“All the libel lawyers will tell you there’s no libel any more, that everyone’s given up.” -Ian Hislop
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“As for lawyers, it’s more fun to play one than to be one.” -Sam Waterston
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“It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.” -Arthur Baer
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“I have been committed to carrying out my duties… in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.” -Samuel Alito
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“They don’t need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.” -Edward Bennett Williams
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“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.” -Mary Roberts Rinehart
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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.” -Addison Mizner
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“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“I have a different approach. I don’t file lawsuits because I really don’t care.” -Nicole Kidman
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“Misery is the company of lawsuits.” -Francois Rabelais
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“People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.” -Norman Ralph Augustine
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“Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.” -Jack Kingston
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“The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.” -Christopher Darden
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“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.” -Loni Anderson
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“A good lawyer is a bad Christian.” -John Lothrop Motley
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“I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.” -Daniel Goleman
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“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.” -Aaron Allston
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“I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn’t want to have half my brain sucked out.” -Max Walker
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“It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it’s too bad that we don’t have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team’s lawyers.” -Carol Burnett
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“Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there’s a pretty good likelihood their case – no matter what its merit – will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.” -Dennis Hastert
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“The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.” -Gavin Rossdale
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“I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.” -James E. Rogers
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“The more laws, the less justice.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.” -Samuel Butler
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“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.” -Robert E. Lee
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“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.” -George Herbert
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“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“Justice delayed is justice denied.” -William E. Gladstone
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“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.” -Charles Lamb
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“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.” -Joseph Conrad
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“You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.” -John Irving
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“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.” -Jeremy Bentham
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“I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.” -Oliver North
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“I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” -Steven Wright
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“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.” -Robert Frost
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“People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.” -Will Rogers
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“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.” -Plato
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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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