Quote by H.L. Mencken
Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. - H.L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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Life
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken

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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H.L. Mencken

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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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Justice & Law

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894

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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. – Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson

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