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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The trouble with law is lawyers. (Robespierre Maximilien)
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. (Robespierre Maximilien)
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Good men must not obey the laws too well. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. (Robespierre Maximilien)
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Where the law ends tyranny begins. (Robespierre Maximilien)
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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