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“All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.”
Felix Frankfurter quotes (American Jurist, 1882-1965)
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“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”
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“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.”
Earl Warren quotes (American Republican Politician and Judge, 1891-1974)
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“Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.”
Donald Rumsfeld quotes (American Secretary of Defense)
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“A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself”
Henry Peter Brougham quotes (British political leader 1778-1868)
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“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained”
Niccolo Machiavelli quotes (Italian writer and statesman, Florentine patriot, author of 'The Prince', 1469-1527)
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“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope”
Niccolo Machiavelli quotes (Italian writer and statesman, Florentine patriot, author of 'The Prince', 1469-1527)
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“Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape”
Solon quotes (Athenian statesman and poet, 630-560bc)
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“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had such a mastery of legal principles: "Why, they had so few books”

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“When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty”
Charles Evans Hughes quotes (American Jurist and Statesman. 1862-1948)
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