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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Ben Carson

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Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Horace Porter

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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Maya Angelou

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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

Susan B. Anthony

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Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

Frederick Reines

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

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The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Robert Kennedy

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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

David Novak

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Herodotus

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Tatum O'Neal

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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Miguel de Unamuno

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From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Nelson Mandela

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As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

George Mason

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Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Jeff Raikes

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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb

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As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way, too. But after a while, I said, 'Let me just finish the degree. I'm getting the G.I. Bill.'

William Sanderson

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