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"I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train"
Ronald Biggs, Celebrity
"Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach"
Marsha Blackburn, Politician
"A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence"
John Foxe, Writer
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind"
David Trimble, Politician
"Justice deferred is justice denied"
Diane Watson, Politician
"Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them"
Georg Henrik von Wright, Philosopher
"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law"
Leon Jaworski, Public Servant
"I've been waiting 13 years for justice"
Curtis Sliwa, Radio host
"Hang 'em first, try 'em later"
Roy Bean, Judge
"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion"
Carrie Chapman Catt, Activist
"Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?"
John Strachan, Clergyman
"It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit"
Michael Newdow, Lawyer
"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do"
George Linnaeus Banks, Writer
"It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million!"
Al Jardine, Musician
"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion"
Christopher Darden, Lawyer
"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"
Albert Maltz, Author
"So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit, who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration"
Chuck Zito, Celebrity
"The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good"
Henry Knox, Soldier
"In a just cause, the weak will beat the strong"
Sophocles, Author
"There is a point at which even justice does injury"
Sophocles, Author
"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice"
Voltaire, Writer
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them"
Voltaire, Writer
"Crime associated with our border is a serious threat to the general welfare of real citizens, and after all, isn't it the general welfare of citizens that the Constitution calls upon government to promote?"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"Every time I plant a seed, he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow"
Bob Marley, Musician
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice?"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"If God is just, I tremble for my country"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"A riot is the language of the unheard"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals"
William Blake, Poet
"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the people"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"Actually, lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains"
Lord Byron, Poet
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