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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a poli

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906

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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court. – Clarence Darrow, 1936

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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking

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