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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."	Henry Mencken
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."	Robert Frost
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."	Martin Luther King Jr.
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."	Edmund Burke
"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous."	Tacitus
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."	Jonathan Swift
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."	Plato
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."	Benjamin Franklin
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."	Henry Mencken
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"When the president does it that means that it is not illegal."	Richard Nixon
"When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws."	GK Chesterton

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