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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws (Robespierre Maximilien)
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. (Robespierre Maximilien)
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. (Robespierre Maximilien)
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. (Robespierre Maximilien)
I say, break the law. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution. (Robespierre Maximilien)
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them (Robespierre Maximilien)
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. (Robespierre Maximilien)
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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