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Quote by Lord Halifax
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. – Lord Halifax

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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. – Lord Halifax

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Manners
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Lord Halifax
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Hunger makes a thief of any man. – Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. – Isaac Rosenfeld

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