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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.
politics fervent
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists. Alan Bradley
politics heroines palin
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine. Camille Paglia
politics welfare economy
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom. Caspar Weinberger
politics bureaucracy dies
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. Charley Reese
politics world speak
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth. Charles Krauthammer
politics servant civil-servants
I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. Billy Joel
politics requirements firsts
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. Dean Acheson
politics natural economy
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price. David Ricardo
politics firsts appearance
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. David Hume
injustice destroyed
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. Bayard Rustin
injustice speak protect
I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well. Brandon Marshall
injustice results
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally. Aristotle
injustice socialism response
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice. Ed Miliband
injustices saw
It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers. F. Sionil Jose
injustice wonderful contradiction
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard. Adam Hochschild
injustice destruction humans
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
injustice solutions
Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift. Bryant H. McGill
injustice ministers fraud
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. Edmund Burke