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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. -- Edward Gibbon
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. -- Steve Chabot
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. -- Barack Obama
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. -- Dick Thornburgh
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. -- Herbert Read
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted. -- Christopher Darden
And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business. -- Christopher Gadsden
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. -- Marquis de Sade
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. -- Charles de Secondat
When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before. -- Richard Carmona
For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. -- Cesare Beccaria
In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. -- Steven Seagal
Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections. -- Arthur Capper
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left. -- Bill Vaughan
A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not. -- Jose Padilha
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. -- Jude Law
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy. -- Michael Moriarty
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. -- Louis Agassiz
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. -- St. Jerome
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. -- Charles Studd
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. -- J. K. Rowling
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. -- William James
If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do. -- Charles Handy
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. -- Charles Darwin
[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country. -- Chris Christie
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is. -- Michel de Montaigne
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged. -- Thomas Hobbes
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position -- Richard Reti
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it. -- Nick Cave

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