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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.
patriotism sin multitudes
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins. Carolyn Wells
patriotism
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. George M. Cohan
patriotism
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. Abraham Lincoln
patriotism tales partisanship
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. John Avlon
patriotism fever stones
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. Ambrose Bierce
patriotism firsts resorts
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
patriotism
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. Richard Aldington
patriotism
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. Lao Tzu
patriotism inspired communism
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. Ho Chi Minh