Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell

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. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nations heart, the excision of its memory. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. – Mary Roberts Rinehart

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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. – William Dunbar

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Weve got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Lets create a new legal system, so theyll have their day in court. – Lindsey Graham

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I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. – Sidney Poitier

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