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Jesus Christ condemned the ever-present swarm of lawyers in Israel saying "Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.... you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.
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William
Shakespeare
1564-1616
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
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Christopher
North [John Wilson]
1785-1854
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Laws were made to be broken.
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Oliver
Goldsmith
1728-1774
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Laws
grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson
1803-1882
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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John Arbuthnot
1667-1735
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Law is
a bottomless pit.
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Francis
Bacon
1561-1626
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One of
the Seven was wont to say; 'That laws were like cobwebs; where
the small flies were caught, and the great break through.'
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Bible
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Woe unto
you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge.
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Bible
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Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law.
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Bible
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An
Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee.
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William
Blake
1757-1827
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Prisons
are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of
Religion.
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Edmund Burke
1729-1797
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There
is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law,
the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity
- the law of nature, and of nations.
People
crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their
enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those, who have much
to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more
or less.
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Charles
Davenant
1656-1714
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Had laws
not been, we never had been blam'd;
For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
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Samuel Taylor
1772-1834
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He saw
a Lawyer killing a viper
On a dunghill hard by his own stable;
And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind
Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
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John Gay
1685-1732
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A fox
may steal your hens, sir
If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir
He steals your whole estate.
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Ulysses
Simpson Grant
1822-1885
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I know
no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective
as their stringent execution.
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Sir Allen
Patrick Herbert
1890-
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The Common
Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure
- the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'
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Bishop Samuel
Horsley
1733-1806
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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
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Samuel Johnson
1709-1784
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A lawyer
has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which
he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then
he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of
the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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Rudyard
Kipling
1865-1936
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Now this
is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky.
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Abraham
Lincoln
1809-1865
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of
the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people
all of the time.
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John Ruskin
1819-1900
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Government
and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy
and competition the laws of death.
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John Selden
1584-1654
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Ignorance
of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but
because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can
tell how to confute him.
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Walter Carruthers
Sellar
1898 -
and
Robert Julian Yeatman
Contemporary
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The National
Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it
off for fear of Political Economy.
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Percy Bysshe
Shelly
1792-1822
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The
rich have become richer and the poor have become poorer; and
the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis
of anarchy and depotism.
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William
Shenstone
1714 - 1763
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Laws are
generally found to be nets of such a texture,
as the little creep through, the great break through,
and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.
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Jonathan
Swift
1667-1745
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Laws are
like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets
break through.
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Anonymous
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The
almighty dollar is the only object of worship.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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It's always the lawyers who are defending guilty clients, who
do the delaying of Justice by remanding cases.
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Possession is 9/10 of the law.
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Where there is no plaintiff there is no Judge.
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A lawyer's only vocation in life is to make money of the misery
of others.
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MORE OUTRAGES LAWSUITS
CAN BE FOUND IN THE BOOK TITLED
THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE by PHILIP K. HOWARD
HOW LAW IS SUFFOCATING AMERICA AND THE WESTERN WORLD.
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