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"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is"
Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist
"Lawless are they that make their wills their law"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"
Voltaire, Writer
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea"
John Adams, President
"Fairness is what justice really is"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove"
Juvenal, Poet
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society"
Hillary Clinton, Politician
"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"
Johnnie Cochran, Lawyer
"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law"
Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Power never takes a back step, only in the face of more power"
Malcolm X, Activist
"I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions"
C. Wright Mills, Sociologist
"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order, both within societies and in international relations"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"
Marion Barry, Politician
"Yes, America is a nation of immigrants - but the immigrants have to enter legally"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"He who allows oppression shares the crime"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"My administration is the only thing between you [CEOs] and the pitchforks"
Barack Obama, President
"A government of laws, and not of men"
John Adams, President
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it"
A. Philip Randolph, Activist
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"Justice delayed is justice denied"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time"
Meyer Lansky, Criminal
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