If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. – Louis D. Brandeis
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
Even when I begin with a situation thats basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places. – Paul Mazursky
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. – Sir Winston Churchill
