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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Lawyers I suppose were children once. (Robespierre Maximilien)
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A judge is a law student who grades his own papers. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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