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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. -- Denis Diderot
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. -- Alexander Herzen
I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino. -- Richard Ingrams
It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it. -- Edward Cline
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. -- Adolf Loos
When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function. -- Hilary Mantel
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting. -- Richard Rogers
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. -- Leo Tolstoy
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -- Cormac McCarthy
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. -- Leo Tolstoy
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors -- Plutarch
It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now. -- Randal Cremer
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community. -- Rand Paul
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts. -- Robert Reich
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. -- Craig Venter
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress. -- Joyce Cary
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. -- Robert Owen
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. -- Benjamin Franklin Fairless
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. -- William Whipple
I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land. -- Bob Menendez
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor. -- Amy Klobuchar
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. -- Stephen Breyer
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity. -- Cliff Sloan
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. -- Byron White
The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. -- Jeremy Rifkin
We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody. -- Veerappa Moily
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. -- Robert Bork
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. -- Learned Hand
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. -- Samuel Dash
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. -- Charles Fried
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. -- John Quincy Adams
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts. -- Bikram Choudhury
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. -- John O. Brennan
In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. -- Jimmy Carter
Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts. -- Rebecca West
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. -- Gorgias

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