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law government decision
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Charles Tupper
law rights source
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. Charles Edward Merriam
law evil doers
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. Charles Dickens
law people world
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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.
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.
ethics be-good respectable
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. Edith Sitwell
ethics morality
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. Bertrand Russell
ethics no-respect persons
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? William Shakespeare
ethics possibility treats
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. Alain Badiou
ethics contemplation form
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity. Aristotle
ethics file individual leader members minority nancy party truce
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint. Jennifer Crider
ethics conviction concerned
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. Arthur Keith
ethics failed mention
He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.
ethics final giant ken motives word
Here's the final word from a giant of American jurisprudence on the methods, motives and ethics of Ken Starr. Jim Jordan