3,047 Quotes About Law

  • Author Daniel Webster
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    Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

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  • Author Daniel Webster
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    If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

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  • Author E. O. Wilson
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    Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

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  • Author Earl Warren
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    The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

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  • Author Eugene Wigner
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    [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

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  • Author Eugene Wigner
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    It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

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