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law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
tyrants reign weak
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
tyrants use injustice
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
tyrants conservative rebellion
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin
tyrants today rebel
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. Will Durant
tyrants age democracy
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. Alexis de Tocqueville
tyrants ears tyranny
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? Juvenal
tyrants natural natural-death
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
tyrants done dictator
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. Dennis Prager
tyrants states dealings
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. Demosthenes
tyranny all-time assured
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. Albert Einstein
tyranny inferiors
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. Napoleon Bonaparte
tyranny
Tyranny must not prevail. Margaret Thatcher
tyranny-of-the-majority shields anonymity
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. John Paul Stevens
tyranny dictatorship exhausting
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. Stefan Molyneux
tyranny knows
I know all about the tyranny of women. Tennessee Williams
tyranny greater
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living. Thomas Paine