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«The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
buttoned, buttoning, buttons, button up, imperfect, intended, lucky, on the button, press, show up
«The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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Power,
Press
| Keywords:
periodical, press
«The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
blessing, curse, forgets, modern, modern times, press, printing, printing press
«The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
coverage, martyrdom, press, suicide
«Press the any key ... hmmm where's the any key?»
«The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
conclusion, dared, draw, machine, premise, premised, premises, press, railway, railways, telegraph, The Machine, the press, The Telegraph
«There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
freedom of the press, press, protect, the press
«The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Press
| Keywords:
enlightening, improving, instrument, press, rational, the press
«The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bulwark, bulwarks, despotic, freedom of the press, liberty of the press, press, restrained, the press
«The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment b»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abuses, correct, discernment, falsehood, firmness, manifested, press, safely, the press, trusted, withstanding, withstood
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